Neuromagnetic speech discrimination responses are associated with reading-related skills in dyslexic and typical readers.

ABSTRACT: Poor neural speech discrimination has been connected to dyslexia, and may represent phonological processing deficits that are hypothesized to be the main cause for reading impairments. Thus far, neural speech discrimination impairments have rarely been investigated in adult dyslexics, and even less by examining sources of neuromagnetic responses. We compared neuromagnetic speech discrimination in dyslexic and typical readers with mismatch fields (MMF) and determined the associations between MMFs and reading-related skills. We expected weak and atypically lateralized MMFs in dyslexic readers, and positive associations between reading-related skills and MMF strength. MMFs were recorded to a repeating pseudoword /ta-ta/ with occasional changes in vowel identity, duration, or syllable f

SUBMITTER: Thiede A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7452546 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature