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Neurosciences
Silja Luotonen, Henry Railo, Henriette Acosta, Minna Huotilainen, Maria Lavonius, Linnea Karlsson, Hasse Karlsson, Jetro J. Tuulari
Summary: Prenatal maternal depression symptoms may lead to weaker responses to happy sounds in children, but no significant effects were found for sad and angry sounds.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Clinical Neurology
Irina Schierholz, Constanze Schoenermark, Esther Ruigendijk, Andrej Kral, Bruno Kopp, Andreas Buechner
Summary: The study found that post-lingually deafened CI users exhibit enhanced attention allocation to auditory oddball stimuli. However, there were similar attentional modulations in other ERP amplitudes between CI users and NH controls.
CLINICAL NEUROPHYSIOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Educational
Erika Hoff, Michelle K. Tulloch, Cynthia Core
Summary: Children from language minority homes in the US display variable dual language skills at school age. The bilingual profiles among 126 U.S.-born, 5-year-old Spanish-English bilinguals were identified based on language balance and total language knowledge, influenced by indicators of language exposure and learning ability. English dominance was more common than balanced bilingualism, without evidence of a tradeoff between English and Spanish skills.
Article
Psychiatry
Prune Mazer, Ines Macedo, Tiago O. Paiva, Fernando Ferreira-Santos, Rita Pasion, Fernando Barbosa, Pedro Almeida, Celeste Silveira, Cassilda Cunha-Reis, Joao Marques-Teixeira
Summary: The study used a roving paradigm to assess the modulation and habituation of N1 and P2 to simple and complex sounds in first-episode schizophrenia patients and healthy participants. The results showed that patients exhibited abnormal habituation to bird songs, while showing preserved auditory processing of human voices.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHIATRY
(2021)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Lisanne Schroer, Richard P. Cooper, Denis Mareschal
Summary: It is known that executive functions (EFs) are related to academic skills, but few studies have considered assessing higher-level EFs in preschool-aged children. This study describes a novel task that assesses planning in real-world situations. The results showed that performance on one of the constraints in the task varied with age, and different components of planning performance predicted inhibitory control and working memory efficacy. This task provides a simple and effective way to assess EF in toddlers and allows for investigations into the neurodevelopment of EF in the real world.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Analytical
Manorot Borirakarawin, Yunyong Punsawad
Summary: In this study, an auditory stimulus pattern was developed for improving control and communication in quadriplegia with visual impairment, utilizing EEG channels to observe ERP responses and classification efficiency. The proposed auditory stimulus pattern showed higher accuracy, and multi-loudspeaker patterns provided increased accuracy.
Article
Geriatrics & Gerontology
Farooq Kamal, Cassandra Morrison, Kenneth Campbell, Vanessa Taler
Summary: Research is focusing on developing a simple and low-cost method to detect early signs of Alzheimer's disease pathology. This study used event-related potentials to compare auditory processing between healthy older adults and individuals with mild cognitive impairment, finding differences in late positivity between the groups under slow auditory stimulus presentation.
FRONTIERS IN AGING NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Genetics & Heredity
Daria Kostanian, Anna Rebreikina, Victoria Voinova, Olga Sysoeva
Summary: This study aims to investigate the abnormal characteristics of auditory processing in Rett syndrome patients by increasing the stimulus presentation rate. The results showed that Rett syndrome patients exhibited significant delays and reductions in the size and latency of ERP components, indicating impaired adaptation mechanisms in the auditory system. Additionally, auditory ERP development stagnation was observed in Rett syndrome patients, with absence of typical P2N1 enlargement and P1, N1 shortening.
Review
Clinical Neurology
Chiara Penengo, Chiara Colli, Carolina Bonivento, Andrea Boscutti, Matteo Balestrieri, Giuseppe Delvecchio, Paolo Brambilla
Summary: This review summarizes ERP studies on BPD, finding altered positive ERP amplitudes, latencies, and loudness dependence in BPD patients, possibly reflecting deficits in attention and executive functions.
JOURNAL OF AFFECTIVE DISORDERS
(2022)
Article
Public, Environmental & Occupational Health
Charli Eriksson, Hakan Stattin
Summary: Using a person-centered approach, this study explores changes in the distribution of mental health problems among Swedish adolescents over time. Cluster analyses of surveys from 2002 to 2018 revealed four mental health profiles, with a significant increase in high psychosomatic symptoms among 15-year-olds between 2010 and 2018.
FRONTIERS IN PUBLIC HEALTH
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Developmental
Natalie M. Saragosa-Harris, Alexandra O. Cohen, Xinxu Shen, Haniyyah Sardar, Cristina M. Alberini, Catherine A. Hartley
Summary: This study investigated forgetting in 137 children aged 3-5 years old through an interactive storybook task. The results showed a significant increase in memory performance with age across all delay periods, with 3-year-olds demonstrating chance-level memory accuracy after a 1-week delay. The age differences in associative memory support the hypothesis that hippocampal-dependent memory systems undergo rapid development during the preschool years.
DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE
(2021)
Article
Mathematics
Andrey Nasledov, Sergey Miroshnikov, Liubov Tkacheva, Kirill Miroshnik, Meriam Uld Semeta
Summary: This study aimed to develop an autism scale for early and accurate differentiation of 3- to 4-year-olds at risk for ASD in Russia. Through factor and discriminant analyses, four subscales were obtained with high accuracy (85.5-87.0%) in distinguishing the ASD group from the non-ASD group, meeting psychometric requirements for creating an online screening system.
Article
Neurosciences
Stephan Getzmann, Stefan Arnau, Patrick D. Gajewski, Edmund Wascher
Summary: This study investigated the impact of auditory distraction on time perception, revealing that deviant-pitch tones particularly affected the accurate discrimination of long tones, possibly due to a withdrawal of attentional resources from time information processing.
EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Psychology, Biological
Susan M. Mingils, Patricia L. Davies, Jaclyn A. Stephens, William J. Gavin
Summary: This study examined the developmental trends of P3 amplitude and latency and their associations with participant traits, tones of the novelty oddball paradigm, and scalp sites. The results showed that children had larger P3 amplitudes compared to adults and this finding was explained by the role of N2 in discrimination. Furthermore, the developmental trends were primarily linear in amplitude but mostly non-linear in latency. Sex differences and interactions between tones and scalp sites were also observed.
Article
Psychology, Educational
Tashauna L. Blankenship, Melissa M. Kibbe
Summary: The ability to complete goals with multiple steps is challenging for 3-year-olds, but they can benefit from plan chunking. A study with 32 US children found that when steps were presented in pairs, children were more successful in completing a four-step sequence. These findings suggest a potential mechanism that supports memory-guided planning abilities in early childhood.
Article
Neurosciences
Sini-Tuuli Siponkoski, Sanna Koskinen, Sari Laitinen, Milla Holma, Mirja Ahlfors, Paivi Jordan-Kilkki, Katja Ala-Kauhaluoma, Noelia Martinez-Molina, Susanna Melkas, Matti Laine, Aarne Ylinen, Nathan Zasler, Pekka Rantanen, Jari Lipsanen, Teppo Sarkamo
Summary: Neurological music therapy has been shown to have a positive effect on everyday behavioral regulation skills after traumatic brain injury (TBI), particularly in terms of emotional well-being and activity. The intervention was found to enhance general executive function and set shifting.
NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL REHABILITATION
(2022)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Niia Virtanen, Kaisa Tiippana, Mari Tervaniemi, Hanna Poikonen, Eeva Anttila, Kaisa Kaseva
Summary: Body consciousness is related to kinetic skills and overall wellbeing, with physical activities playing a significant role in its development. This study compared body consciousness levels among dancers, athletes, and lightly physically active individuals using experimental methods and self-report questionnaires. Athletes performed better in posture copying tasks, while dancers showed higher cognitive and perceptual knowledge of their bodies compared to lightly active individuals.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Silja Luotonen, Henry Railo, Henriette Acosta, Minna Huotilainen, Maria Lavonius, Linnea Karlsson, Hasse Karlsson, Jetro J. Tuulari
Summary: Prenatal maternal depression symptoms may lead to weaker responses to happy sounds in children, but no significant effects were found for sad and angry sounds.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Neurosciences
Eino Partanen, Gustaf Martensson, Pernilla Hugoson, Minna Huotilainen, Vineta Fellman, Ulrika Aden
Summary: As the human auditory system is highly malleable in infancy, perinatal risk factors, such as preterm birth, may affect auditory development. Musical interventions developed for neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) have shown beneficial effects on preterm infants. In this study, the effect of parental singing during kangaroo care on auditory processing of standardized audio stimuli was tested. The results suggest that incorporating singing into kangaroo care may be beneficial for preterm infants due to positive parenting, improved parental self-esteem, and improved caregiver sensitivity.
FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
Article
Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Minna Laakso, Jari Lipsanen, Kati Pajo, Inkeri Salmenlinna, Tarja Aaltonen, Johanna Ruusuvuori, Antti Aarnisalo
Summary: This study examined the outcomes of hearing aid rehabilitation, social-communicative functioning, and expectations/experiences during eight months of hearing aid use. The results showed that younger age and positive expectations of hearing aids were associated with better outcomes and social-communicative functioning. The severity of hearing loss and the type or number of hearing aids did not significantly affect the outcomes.
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF AUDIOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Pediatrics
Kaisamari Kostilainen, Pernilla Hugoson, Anu Haavisto, Eino Partanen, Kaija Mikkola, Minna Huotilainen, Satu Pakarinen, Catarina Furmark, Ulrika Aden, Vineta Fellman
Summary: This study aims to examine the long-term effects of neonatal music interventions on the cognition of preterm-born children. The results showed that a singing intervention by parents did not improve cognitive and language skills, and there were no associations between the amount of singing and cognitive and language scores.
Article
Neurosciences
K. Saarikivi, T. M. Chan, M. Huotilainen, M. Tervaniemi, V Putkinen
Summary: Musically trained individuals show better performance in executive functions tasks, particularly in set shifting, but this advantage diminishes as they grow older. However, trained adolescents still exhibit more efficient brain activation and distinct scalp topography in set-shifting tasks.
Review
Neurosciences
Mari Tervaniemi
Summary: Over the past two decades, studies in the neuroscience of music have shifted from well-controlled experimental research to more naturalistic and ecologically valid paradigms. This article introduces this shift in terms of sound stimulation, empirical paradigms, study participants, and methods of data acquisition. The aim is to provide a historical overview of the field's development and stimulate innovative thinking to enhance the ecological validity of studies while maintaining experimental rigor.
TRENDS IN NEUROSCIENCES
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Ita Puusepp, Tanja Linnavalli, Tuisku Tammi, Minna Huotilainen, Teija Kujala, Sonja Laine, Elina Kuusisto, Kirsi Tirri
Summary: The aim of this study was to examine the development of associations between elementary school students' mindsets and attentional neural processing of positive and negative feedback in math. Data from 100 Finnish elementary school students were analyzed and it was found that students' fixed mindsets about general intelligence and math ability were associated with greater attention allocated to positive feedback. Additionally, a marginal association was found between students' fixed general intelligence mindset and attention allocated to negative feedback, mainly in grade 4.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Silja Martikainen, Mirjam Kalland, Tanja Linnavalli, Kaisamari Kostilainen, Metsaemarja Aittokoski, Jyrki Reunamo, Zoi Vasileiou, Mari Tervaniemi
Summary: A randomized controlled trial was conducted to investigate the effectiveness of two 10-week early childhood education and care interventions, SAGA and Pikkuli, in supporting social-emotional and verbal development. The results showed that children in both intervention groups exhibited improvements in prosocial behavior and had fewer internalizing problems after the intervention. These findings suggest that both interventions have the potential to support children's social-emotional development in the early childhood education and care environment.
SCANDINAVIAN JOURNAL OF EDUCATIONAL RESEARCH
(2023)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Sami Lofgren, Liisa Ilomaki, Jari Lipsanen, Auli Toom
Summary: This study aims to scrutinize the contribution of the learning environment to student learning of competencies in vocational education and training. The research findings indicate the existence of eight competency domains and the positive influence of the learning environment on competency learning.
VOCATIONS AND LEARNING
(2023)
Article
Linguistics
Cuicui Wang, Krystal Flemming, Yanpei Wang, Vesa Putkinen, Mari Tervaniemi, Jessica Lammert, Sha Tao, Marc F. Joanisse
Summary: This study aimed to investigate the effects of second language immersion and musical experience on second language speech and general auditory processing. The results showed that immersed English learners and native English speakers exhibited larger mismatch negativity (MMN) in the speech oddball task compared to intermediate English learners and native Chinese-speaking musicians, suggesting that second language immersion experience can facilitate speech processing. However, there were no significant differences in MMN for general auditory processing among the groups. The findings suggest that the effect of second language immersion is domain-specific and can specifically enhance speech perception. This study contributes to a better understanding of the role of different learning experiences in second language acquisition.
JOURNAL OF NEUROLINGUISTICS
(2023)
Article
Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Tommi Aho, Hanna Harno, Jari Lipsanen, Eija Kalso, Reetta Sipila
Summary: This study found that personality characteristics have an impact on the long-term well-being and health-related quality of life (HrQoL) of breast cancer survivors. It also revealed that temperament and character affect the dimensions of HrQoL through pain-related and psychological factors in these survivors. These findings have important implications for clinical interventions and effective pain management to enhance the psychosocial well-being and HrQoL of breast cancer survivors.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
Article
Social Sciences, Interdisciplinary
Mirjam Kalland, Saara Salo, Laszlo Vincze, Jari Lipsanen, Simo Raittila, Johanna Sourander, Martina Salven-Bodin, Marjaterttu Pajulo
Summary: Cohabitation is more common than marriage among couples expecting their first child in Finland. This study found that cohabiting parents had lower levels of wellbeing, lower relationship satisfaction, and expressed less satisfaction with the support they received from their partner. Additionally, cohabiting fathers did not use free support from maternity clinics as often as married fathers.
SOCIAL SCIENCES-BASEL
(2022)
