The neural oscillations of speech processing and language comprehension: state of the art and emerging mechanisms

L Meyer - European Journal of Neuroscience, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Neural oscillations subserve a broad range of functions in speech processing and language
comprehension. On the one hand, speech contains—somewhat—repetitive trains of air …

Is atypical rhythm a risk factor for developmental speech and language disorders?

E Ladányi, V Persici, A Fiveash… - Wiley …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Although a growing literature points to substantial variation in speech/language abilities
related to individual differences in musical abilities, mainstream models of communication …

Neuroanatomy of developmental dyslexia: Pitfalls and promise

F Ramus, I Altarelli, K Jednoróg, J Zhao… - Neuroscience & …, 2018 - Elsevier
Investigations into the neuroanatomical bases of developmental dyslexia have now
spanned more than 40 years, starting with the post-mortem examination of a few individual …

Synchronous, but not entrained: exogenous and endogenous cortical rhythms of speech and language processing

L Meyer, Y Sun, AE Martin - Language, Cognition and …, 2020 - Taylor & Francis
Research on speech processing is often focused on a phenomenon termed “entrainment”,
whereby the cortex shadows rhythmic acoustic information with oscillatory activity …

Out‐of‐synchrony speech entrainment in developmental dyslexia

N Molinaro, M Lizarazu, M Lallier… - Human brain …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
Developmental dyslexia is a reading disorder often characterized by reduced awareness of
speech units. Whether the neural source of this phonological disorder in dyslexic readers …

Atypical cortical entrainment to speech in the right hemisphere underpins phonemic deficits in dyslexia

GM Di Liberto, V Peter, M Kalashnikova, U Goswami… - NeuroImage, 2018 - Elsevier
Developmental dyslexia is a multifaceted disorder of learning primarily manifested by
difficulties in reading, spelling, and phonological processing. Neural studies suggest that …

[HTML][HTML] Neural encoding of the speech envelope by children with developmental dyslexia

AJ Power, LJ Colling, N Mead, L Barnes… - Brain and Language, 2016 - Elsevier
Developmental dyslexia is consistently associated with difficulties in processing phonology
(linguistic sound structure) across languages. One view is that dyslexia is characterised by a …

Delta (but not theta)‐band cortical entrainment involves speech‐specific processing

N Molinaro, M Lizarazu - European Journal of Neuroscience, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Cortical oscillations phase‐align to the quasi‐rhythmic structure of the speech envelope.
This speech–brain entrainment has been reported in two frequency bands, that is both in the …

Successful second language learning is tied to robust domain-general auditory processing and stable neural representation of sound

M Kachlicka, K Saito, A Tierney - Brain and language, 2019 - Elsevier
There is a great deal of individual variability in outcome in second language learning, the
sources of which are still poorly understood. We hypothesized that individual differences in …

[HTML][HTML] The neurological basis of developmental dyslexia and related disorders: A reappraisal of the temporal hypothesis, twenty years on

M Habib - Brain sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
In a now-classic article published a couple of decades ago (Brain, 2000; 123: 2373–2399), I
proposed an “extended temporal processing deficit hypothesis of dyslexia”, suggesting that …