Auditory discrimination predicts linguistic outcome in Italian infants with and without familial risk for language learning impairment.

ABSTRACT: Infants' ability to discriminate between auditory stimuli presented in rapid succession and differing in fundamental frequency (Rapid Auditory Processing [RAP] abilities) has been shown to be anomalous in infants at familial risk for Language Learning Impairment (LLI) and to predict later language outcomes. This study represents the first attempt to investigate RAP in Italian infants at risk for LLI (FH+), examining two critical acoustic features: frequency and duration, both embedded in a rapidly-presented acoustic environment. RAP skills of 24 FH+ and 32 control (FH-) Italian 6-month-old infants were characterized via EEG/ERP using a multi-feature oddball paradigm. Outcome measures of expressive vocabulary were collected at 20 months. Group differences favoring FH- infants were identifie

SUBMITTER: Cantiani C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6987703 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature