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Domain-general but not speech-specific auditory duration perception predicts pseudoword reading in adults

Associations between reading performance and duration perception have been found both for domain-general and speech-specific duration perception. However, research seems limited to children and, critically, the predictive value of the two duration perception modalities has not been compared so far....

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Autores principales: Batista, Ana Rita, Catronas, Dinis, Sousa, José, Folia, Vasiliki, Torres, Nathercia Lima, Silva, Susana
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Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2023
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10539623/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37780963
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2023.1241589
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author Batista, Ana Rita
Catronas, Dinis
Sousa, José
Folia, Vasiliki
Torres, Nathercia Lima
Silva, Susana
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Catronas, Dinis
Sousa, José
Folia, Vasiliki
Torres, Nathercia Lima
Silva, Susana
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description Associations between reading performance and duration perception have been found both for domain-general and speech-specific duration perception. However, research seems limited to children and, critically, the predictive value of the two duration perception modalities has not been compared so far. In the present study we compared the weight of domain-general (comparison of time intervals defined by beeps) vs. speech-specific duration perception (pre-attentive EEG responses to consonants with different durations) as statistical predictors of reading in a sample of 46 neurotypical adults (18–43 years old) with 13 years of schooling on average. Reading included word and pseudoword decoding, as well as reading comprehension. We ran one regression model with domain-general and speech-specific duration perception as predictors for each of the three reading skills. Pseudoword decoding was the only reading skill that was significantly predicted by duration perception, and this happened for domain-general duration perception only. A complementary analysis adding 26 typically developing and 24 dyslexic adults to the main sample (n = 96 in total) showed the same pattern of results in dyslexics, but not in added controls. Our findings strengthen the idea that duration perception is important to phonological encoding and its use in grapheme-to-phoneme conversion, given that only pseudoword decoding was predicted by the interval comparison task. The irrelevance of speech-specific duration perception tones down the possibility that accurately perceiving the length of speech sounds is crucial to skilled reading.
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spelling pubmed-105396232023-09-30 Domain-general but not speech-specific auditory duration perception predicts pseudoword reading in adults Batista, Ana Rita Catronas, Dinis Sousa, José Folia, Vasiliki Torres, Nathercia Lima Silva, Susana Front Hum Neurosci Human Neuroscience Associations between reading performance and duration perception have been found both for domain-general and speech-specific duration perception. However, research seems limited to children and, critically, the predictive value of the two duration perception modalities has not been compared so far. In the present study we compared the weight of domain-general (comparison of time intervals defined by beeps) vs. speech-specific duration perception (pre-attentive EEG responses to consonants with different durations) as statistical predictors of reading in a sample of 46 neurotypical adults (18–43 years old) with 13 years of schooling on average. Reading included word and pseudoword decoding, as well as reading comprehension. We ran one regression model with domain-general and speech-specific duration perception as predictors for each of the three reading skills. Pseudoword decoding was the only reading skill that was significantly predicted by duration perception, and this happened for domain-general duration perception only. A complementary analysis adding 26 typically developing and 24 dyslexic adults to the main sample (n = 96 in total) showed the same pattern of results in dyslexics, but not in added controls. Our findings strengthen the idea that duration perception is important to phonological encoding and its use in grapheme-to-phoneme conversion, given that only pseudoword decoding was predicted by the interval comparison task. The irrelevance of speech-specific duration perception tones down the possibility that accurately perceiving the length of speech sounds is crucial to skilled reading. Frontiers Media S.A. 2023-09-14 /pmc/articles/PMC10539623/ /pubmed/37780963 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2023.1241589 Text en Copyright © 2023 Batista, Catronas, Sousa, Folia, Torres and Silva. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Batista, Ana Rita
Catronas, Dinis
Sousa, José
Folia, Vasiliki
Torres, Nathercia Lima
Silva, Susana
Domain-general but not speech-specific auditory duration perception predicts pseudoword reading in adults
title Domain-general but not speech-specific auditory duration perception predicts pseudoword reading in adults
title_full Domain-general but not speech-specific auditory duration perception predicts pseudoword reading in adults
title_fullStr Domain-general but not speech-specific auditory duration perception predicts pseudoword reading in adults
title_full_unstemmed Domain-general but not speech-specific auditory duration perception predicts pseudoword reading in adults
title_short Domain-general but not speech-specific auditory duration perception predicts pseudoword reading in adults
title_sort domain-general but not speech-specific auditory duration perception predicts pseudoword reading in adults
topic Human Neuroscience
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10539623/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37780963
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fnhum.2023.1241589
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