TY - JOUR
T1 - Stable auditory processing underlies phonological awareness in typically developing preschoolers
AU - Bonacina, Silvia
AU - Otto-Meyer, Sebastian
AU - Krizman, Jennifer
AU - White-Schwoch, Travis
AU - Nicol, T.
AU - Kraus, Nina
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors thank the members of the Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory for their helpful comments on earlier versions of the manuscript. This research is funded by NIH R01HD069414, the Hunter Family Foundation, and the Knowles Hearing Center, Northwestern University.
Funding Information:
The authors thank the members of the Auditory Neuroscience Laboratory for their helpful comments on earlier versions of the manuscript. This research is funded by NIH R01HD069414 , the Hunter Family Foundation , and the Knowles Hearing Center, Northwestern University .
Publisher Copyright:
© 2019 Elsevier Inc.
PY - 2019/10
Y1 - 2019/10
N2 - Sound processing is an important scaffold for early language acquisition. Here we investigate its relationship to three components of phonological processing in young children (∼age 3): Phonological Awareness (PA), Phonological Memory (PM), and Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN). While PA is believed to hinge upon consistency of sound processing to distinguish and manipulate word features, PM relies on an internal store of the sounds of language and RAN relies on fluid production of those sounds. Given the previously demonstrated link between PA and the auditory system, we hypothesized that only this component would be associated with auditory neural stability. Moreover, we expected relationships to manifest at early ages because additional factors may temper the association in older children. We measured across-trial stability of the frequency-following response, PA, PM, and RAN longitudinally in twenty-seven children. Auditory neural stability at age ∼3 years exclusively predicts PA, but this relationship vanishes in older children.
AB - Sound processing is an important scaffold for early language acquisition. Here we investigate its relationship to three components of phonological processing in young children (∼age 3): Phonological Awareness (PA), Phonological Memory (PM), and Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN). While PA is believed to hinge upon consistency of sound processing to distinguish and manipulate word features, PM relies on an internal store of the sounds of language and RAN relies on fluid production of those sounds. Given the previously demonstrated link between PA and the auditory system, we hypothesized that only this component would be associated with auditory neural stability. Moreover, we expected relationships to manifest at early ages because additional factors may temper the association in older children. We measured across-trial stability of the frequency-following response, PA, PM, and RAN longitudinally in twenty-seven children. Auditory neural stability at age ∼3 years exclusively predicts PA, but this relationship vanishes in older children.
KW - Development
KW - Frequency following response
KW - Neural stability
KW - Phonological awareness
KW - Phonological memory
KW - Phonological processing
KW - Rapid automatized naming
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U2 - 10.1016/j.bandl.2019.104664
DO - 10.1016/j.bandl.2019.104664
M3 - Article
C2 - 31374431
AN - SCOPUS:85069906063
SN - 0093-934X
VL - 197
JO - Brain and Language
JF - Brain and Language
M1 - 104664
ER -