Clinical Research Paper Database
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Play sports for a quieter brain: Evidence from Division I collegiate athletes
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Background: Playing sports has many benefits, including boosting physical, cardiovascular, and mental fitness. We tested whether athletic benefits extend to sensory processing-specifically auditory processing-as measured by the frequency-following response (FFR), a scalp-recorded electrophysiolog...
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Meaningful engagement with sound for strengthening communication skills
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In this chapter we review the evidence that meaningful experience with sound can alter behavioral and neural auditory function, discuss different forms of auditory training and their documented impact on auditory system physiology, and highlight their application as remediation strategies for aud...
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Thinking outside the sound booth: Assessing and managing auditory processing disorder in an auditory-cognitive neuroscience framework
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Book chapter evaluating auditory processing disorder (APD) using an auditory-cognitive neuroscience framework. Reviews the impact of various factors on auditory-based learning, including musical training, bilingualism, poverty, and head injury. Also considers the positive effects of auditory trai...
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Neurobiologic responses to speech in noise in children with learning problems: Deficits and strategies for improvement
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Objectives: Some children with learning problems (LP) experience speech-sound perception deficits that worsen in background noise. The first goal was to determine whether these impairments are associated with abnormal neurophysiologic representation of speech features in noise refle...
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The impoverished brain: Disparities in maternal education affect the neural response to sound
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Despite the prevalence of poverty worldwide, little is known about how early socioeconomic adversity affects auditory brain function. Socioeconomically disadvantaged children are underexposed to linguistically and cognitively stimulating environments and overexposed to environmental toxins, inclu...
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Dyslexia risk gene relates to representation of sound in the auditory brainstem
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Dyslexia is a reading disorder with strong associations with KIAA0319 and DCDC2. Both genes play a functional role in spike time precision of neurons. Strikingly, poor readers show an imprecise encoding of fast transients of speech in the auditory brainstem. Whether dyslexia risk genes are relate...
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Assistive listening devices drive neuroplasticity in children with dyslexia
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Children with dyslexia often exhibit increased variability in sensory and cognitive aspects of hearing relative to typically developing peers. Assistive listening devices (classroom FM systems) may reduce auditory processing variability by enhancing acoustic clarity and attention. We assessed the...
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Bilingual enhancements have no socioeconomic boundaries
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To understand how socioeconomic status (SES) and bilingualism simultaneously operate on cognitive and sensory function, we examined executive control, language skills, and neural processing of sound in adolescents who differed in language experience (i.e. English monolingual or Spanish-English bi...
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Unstable representation of sound: a biological marker of dyslexia
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Learning to read proceeds smoothly for most children, yet others struggle to translate verbal language into its written form. Poor readers often have a host of auditory, linguistic, and attention deficits, including abnormal neural representation of speech and inconsistent performance on psychoac...
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New directions: Cochlear implants
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(Section Introduction, from The Neurosciences and Music III: Disorders and Plasticity -- Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences, Vol 1169)
Thirty years ago we never could have imagined the widespread success that cochlear implants (CIs) have achieved today. Although the sound that is heard...
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Musical experience limits the degradative effects of background noise on the neural processing of sound
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Musicians have lifelong experience parsing melodies from background harmonies, which can be considered a process analogous to speech perception in noise. To investigate the effect of musical experience on the neural representation of speech-in-noise, we compared subcortical neurophysiological res...
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Selective subcortical enhancement of musical intervals in musicians
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By measuring the auditory brainstem response to two musical intervals, the major sixth (E3 and G2) and the minor seventh (E3 and F#2), we found that musicians have a more specialized sensory system for processing behaviorally relevant aspects of sound. Musicians had heightened responses to ...
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