The development of auditory attention in children

Gomes, Hilary

doi:10.2741/a500

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“…4͒. This result is readily explained by individual differences in the development of attention skills ͑Doyle, 1973; Gomes et al, 2000͒ and is seen in all of our studies of informational masking in children Wightman and Kistler, 2005;Wightman et al, 2006͒. Modern theories of attention ͑e.g., Pashler, 1998͒ argue that attention involves both bottom-up sensory processes and top-down cognitive processes. In the case of auditory attention, the bottom-up sensory processes might include those that are used to attend to one ear or the other, and the topdown processes might include those that mediate source segregation on the basis of linguistic or phonological parameters.…”

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“…The process of focusing on a target message while attempting to ignore distracting messages is obviously a kind of selective attention. Several behavioral and electrophysiological studies suggest continued development of certain aspects of selective attention well into adolescence ͑Berman and Friedman, 1995; Coch et al, 2005;Doyle, 1973;Gomes et al, 2000;Ridderinkhof and van der Stelt, 2000;Zukier and Hagen, 1978͒. Also, given the relatively rapid average change in the impact of informational masking between the ages of six and 12 years ͑Fig.…”

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Individual differences and age effects in a dichotic informational masking paradigm

Wightman

Kistler

O'Bryan

2010

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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Sixty normally-hearing listeners, ages 5 to 61 years, participated in a monaural speech understanding task designed to assess the impact of a single-talker speech masker presented to the opposite ear. The speech targets were masked by ipsilateral speech-spectrum noise. Masker level was fixed and target level was varied to estimate psychometric functions. The target/masker ratio that led to 51% correct performance in this task was taken as the baseline threshold. The impact of a modulated speech-spectrum noise, a male talker, or a female talker presented at a fixed level to the contralateral ear was quantified by the change in the baseline threshold and was assumed to reflect informational masking. The modulated-noise masker produced no informational masking across the entire age range. Speech maskers produced as much as 20 dB of informational masking for children aged 5-8 years and only 4 dB for adults. In contrast with previous studies using ipsilateral speech maskers, the male and female contralateral speech maskers produced comparable informational masking. Analyses of the developmental rate of change for informational masking and of the patterns of individual differences suggest that the informational masking produced by contralateral and ipsilateral maskers may be mediated by different mechanisms or processes.

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Individual differences and age effects in a dichotic informational masking paradigm

Wightman

Kistler

O'Bryan

2010

The Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

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“…The examination of neurosensory functions, in particular visual and auditory functions, according to the most recent attitude [2,13], might help in this context to evaluate some early aspects of neurodevelopment in these patients. The reports about the developmental consequences of epileptogenic posterior quadrant lesions are limited, probably due to the relatively low proportion of cortical resections performed in these regions and the global cognitive delay which is often associated with refractory epilepsy in patients with posterior quadrantic dysplasia and early age at surgery.…”

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Surgery for posterior quadrantic cortical dysplasia. A review

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Seizures appear most commonly in infants and rapidly progress to a catastrophic course. They are mostly represented by focal seizures and spasms. Surface interictal video-EEG is characterized by background flattening and paroxysmal discharges prevalent on the affected side but not unusually extending to the controlateral hemisphere. The last occasionally shows an independent irritative activity in spite of the absence of further visible structural abnormalities. Most of the patients have visual field or visual attention deficits at diagnosis. Resective as well as disconnective surgical procedures have been proposed for the management of this condition, none of them having shown clear advantages in terms of seizure outcome and complications. Intraoperative electrocorticography (EcoG) and sensorimotor monitoring have been successfully used to improve the localization of the epileptic focus and reduce surgical complication rates. Undistincted lesion borders, independent controlateral ictal or/and interictal EEG activity, and incomplete resections/disconnections are among the main factors that have resulted to be associated with a worse seizure outcome.

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“…Children's ability to selectively attend to relevant auditory information becomes increasingly more focused and accurate as they develop into adults (Doyle 1973;Sexton and Geffen 1979;Gomes et al 2000). Considering this behavioural development with competing theories of late-versus early-stage selection processes of attention (Treisman 1969;Broadbent 1958;Posner 1980;Norman 1968), a question that arises is if maturation of selective auditory attention shifts from late-to early-stages of selection as children develop auditory skills (i.e., top-down maturation)?…”

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Neuroimaging Evidence for Top-Down Maturation of Selective Auditory Attention

Herdman

2011

Brain Topogr

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This study investigated maturational differences of selective auditory attention effects on transient evoked responses and 40-Hz auditory steady-state responses between children and adults. Magnetoencephalography (MEG) was recorded from children and adults performing a task where they attended to 40-Hz amplitude-modulated (AM) tones of 1,200 Hz while ignoring 40-Hz AM tones of 800 Hz. By using standard dipole-modeling procedures, the N1m of the transient evoked fields and the 40-Hz ASSRs were localized to secondary and primary auditory cortices, respectively. Source waveforms for the transient evoked fields and ASSRs were reconstructed at these locations and compared between attended and unattended tones. Source waveforms revealed attention enhances the sustained negativity of the transient evoked responses in both adults and children around 250 and 400 ms. ASSRs were also found to be enhanced within this time range but only for adults. The results provide evidence for a limited role of attention modification of the 40-Hz ASSRs in children around the age of 12 years old. Because ASSRs are generated in a lower auditory processing stage as compared to the transient auditory evoked responses, findings from the present study could indicate that the maturation of attention progresses in top-to-bottom manner. These findings fit with the notion that as a person gains sensory experience selective gating of relevant from irrelevant information likely occurs at earlier and earlier processing levels in order to become more automatic and efficient.

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The development of auditory attention in children

Cited by 69 publications

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Individual differences and age effects in a dichotic informational masking paradigm

Individual differences and age effects in a dichotic informational masking paradigm

Surgery for posterior quadrantic cortical dysplasia. A review

Neuroimaging Evidence for Top-Down Maturation of Selective Auditory Attention

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