Evaluating cortical responses to speech in children: A functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) study.

ABSTRACT: Functional neuroimaging of speech processing has both research and clinical potential. This work is facilitating an ever-increasing understanding of the complex neural mechanisms involved in the processing of speech. Neural correlates of speech understanding also have potential clinical value, especially for infants and children, in whom behavioural assessments can be unreliable. Such measures would not only benefit normally hearing children experiencing speech and language delay, but also hearing impaired children with and without hearing devices. In the current study, we examined cortical correlates of speech intelligibility in normally hearing paediatric listeners. Cortical responses were measured using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), a non-invasive neuroimaging technique

SUBMITTER: Lawrence RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7937787 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature