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Neurosciences
Samso Chota, Phillipe Marque, Rufin VanRullen
Summary: Recent advances in neuroscience have challenged the notion of conscious visual perception as a continuous process, suggesting that oscillatory brain activity may play a role in influencing behavioral performance and visual illusions within the visual system. By investigating the causal relationship between occipital alpha oscillations and Temporal Order Judgements using neural entrainment via rhythmic TMS, the study demonstrates that the phase of entrained oscillations can both facilitate and hinder temporal order perception of visual stimuli. The findings support the idea that visual processing is discrete rather than continuous, and can be modulated by cortical rhythms, providing causal evidence for endogenous periodic modulation of time perception through TMS.
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Neuroimaging
Mahmoud Keshavarzi, Kanad Mandke, Annabel Macfarlane, Lyla Parvez, Fiona Gabrielczyk, Angela Wilson, Usha Goswami
Summary: According to the Temporal Sampling theory, individuals with developmental dyslexia have atypical neural sampling of auditory information, particularly in the delta band. This study examined the neural mechanisms related to atypical sampling using a repetitive speech paradigm. The results showed that children with dyslexia had a different neural response compared to control children, specifically in the delta band. The findings suggest that neural responding to simple beat-based stimuli may serve as a unique neural marker of developmental dyslexia, with implications for diagnosis and remediation.
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(2022)
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Cell Biology
Juliana A. Dushanova, Stefan A. Tsokov
Summary: The study identified differences in functional network topology between dyslexic children and healthy controls, with dyslexic children initially showing a less efficient network configuration but becoming more similar to controls after training. This suggests that visual task training may play a role in improving the network connectivity in dyslexic children.
NEURAL REGENERATION RESEARCH
(2021)
Review
Biochemistry & Molecular Biology
Jessica Gallina, Gianluca Marsicano, Vincenzo Romei, Caterina Bertini
Summary: Alpha-band sensory entrainment has been proposed as a promising tool for improving visuo-attentional performance and treating individuals with impaired alpha activity. However, current studies have yielded mixed results, possibly due to variations in stimulation modalities and measurement techniques. The long-term effects of prolonged alpha-band sensory entrainment are also not well understood. Despite these limitations, this review highlights the potential functional effects and rehabilitative applications of alpha-band sensory entrainment.
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Neurosciences
Anne Koesem, Bohan Dai, James M. McQueen, Peter Hagoort
Summary: During listening, brain activity tracks the rhythmic structures of speech signals. The study investigates the impact of acoustics and intelligibility on neural tracking of speech envelope using magnetoencephalography. The results show that acoustics greatly influence the neural tracking response to speech envelope, while intelligibility does not have a direct effect on it.
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Psychology, Biological
Geoffrey Brookshire
Summary: Research has suggested that attention rhythmically switches between targets at a frequency of 3-8 Hz. However, the author demonstrates through simulations and alternative analysis methods that seemingly periodic rhythms of attention may be artefactual.
NATURE HUMAN BEHAVIOUR
(2022)
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Neurosciences
Katharina Duecker, Tjerk P. Gutteling, Christoph S. Herrmann, Ole Jensen
Summary: The study investigated whether endogenous gamma oscillations in the human brain can be entrained by a rhythmic photic drive of 50 Hz. The results did not show evidence of phase or frequency entrainment of endogenous gamma oscillations by the photic drive. Instead, it was found that the flicker response and gamma oscillations in visual cortex were produced by separate generators, suggesting resilience of the mechanism generating endogenous gamma oscillations to external perturbation.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2021)
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Neurosciences
Licheng Xue, Jing Zhao, Xuchu Weng
Summary: Neural tuning for print refers to differential neural responses to different orthographic forms and other visual stimuli. This study examined the neural tuning for print in Chinese dyslexic children and found selective impairments in fine neural tuning at the sub-lexical level. These findings suggest that the unique features of Chinese characters may contribute to the reading difficulties in dyslexic children.
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Psychology, Developmental
Santiago Morales, Maureen E. Bowers
Summary: This article highlights the importance and application of time-frequency analysis in developmental research. Traditional methods of EEG analysis have limitations, while time-frequency analysis can provide a more comprehensive understanding of oscillations in EEG signals and capture processes not observed by other analysis methods.
DEVELOPMENTAL COGNITIVE NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Ami Sambai, Yeongsil Ju, Akira Uno
Summary: This article reports on a Korean-Japanese bilingual boy with developmental dyslexia who showed dissociation between Korean and Japanese in reading and writing accuracy. His reading skills in Korean were similar to bilinguals, but his reading skills in Japanese were lower. His cognitive profile was similar between languages, with deficits in phonological skills, naming speed, and visual skills.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2022)
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Ana Pina Rodrigues, Miguel Castelo-Branco, Marieke van Asselen
Summary: In this study, it was found that adults with developmental dyslexia exhibit slower mechanisms in using exogenous attention orienting and abnormal responses at farther peripheral distances. Dyslexics also showed attentional facilitation deficits above 12 degrees of eccentricity, indicating a deficit in attentional engagement at far periphery.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
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Neurosciences
Yufei Tan, Valerie Chanoine, Eddy Cavalli, Jean-Luc Anton, Johannes C. Ziegler
Summary: The noisy computation hypothesis suggests that developmental dyslexia may be caused by noise in the computational process, leading to less stable word representations. An fMRI experiment tested this hypothesis and found no evidence to support the idea that dyslexic readers have noisier neural representations compared to typical readers.
FRONTIERS IN HUMAN NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
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Neurosciences
Kanad Mandke, Sheila Flanagan, Annabel Macfarlane, Fiona Gabrielczyk, Angela Wilson, Joachim Gross, Usha Goswami
Summary: This study aimed to investigate whether children with dyslexia exhibit typical entrainment to linguistic information at specific time scales. The results showed significant group differences between children with dyslexia and control children in terms of stress and syllable-level information, as well as phoneme-level information. Furthermore, dyslexic children exhibited reduced global network efficiency, which was correlated with their oral language development.
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Ulrich Pomper, Ulrich Ansorge
Summary: The study found that representations in working memory fluctuated rhythmically at 6 Hz, corresponding to neural oscillations in the theta band. Additionally, the findings suggest that two concurrently held representations may be prioritized in alternation.
PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
(2021)
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Neurosciences
Mate Aller, Heidi Solberg Okland, Lucy J. MacGregor, Helen Blank, Matthew H. Davis
Summary: Speech perception in noisy environments can be enhanced by observing facial movements of communication partners. This study investigated the neural mechanisms of audio-visual speech integration using MEG phase-locking analysis. The results showed that both auditory and visual speech signals were phase-locked to specific frequency brain responses in auditory and visual cortex, suggesting entrainment to syllable-rate components. This study provides insights into the cross-modal predictive mechanisms during speech perception.
JOURNAL OF NEUROSCIENCE
(2022)
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Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Alan J. Power, Lincoln J. Colling, Natasha Mead, Lisa Barnes, Usha Goswami
BRAIN AND LANGUAGE
(2016)
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Neurosciences
Simone Cutini, Denes Szucs, Natasha Mead, Martina Huss, Usha Goswami
Editorial Material
Psychology
Paul A. Howard-Jones, Sashank Varma, Daniel Ansari, Brian Butterworth, Bert De Smedt, Usha Goswami, Diana Laurillard, Michael S. C. Thomas
PSYCHOLOGICAL REVIEW
(2016)
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Neurosciences
Lincoln J. Colling, Hannah L. Noble, Usha Goswami
FRONTIERS IN NEUROSCIENCE
(2017)
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Acoustics
Sheila Flanagan, Usha Goswami
JOURNAL OF THE ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA
(2018)
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Neurosciences
Giovanni M. Di Liberto, Varghese Peter, Marina Kalashnikova, Usha Goswami, Denis Burnham, Edmund C. Lalor
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Joao Araujo, Sheila Flanagan, Alexandre Castro-Caldas, Usha Goswami
Review
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Usha Goswami
ANNALS OF THE NEW YORK ACADEMY OF SCIENCES
(2019)
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Psychology, Educational
Usha Goswami, Martina Huss, Natasha Mead, Tim Fosker
Summary: This study found that individual differences in sensory processing in children with developmental dyslexia can predict the development of phonological awareness, and these differences are significant to some extent, while high reading/IQ does not greatly impact this relationship.
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Education & Educational Research
Henna Ahmed, Angela Wilson, Natasha Mead, Hannah Noble, Ulla Richardson, Mary A. Wolpert, Usha Goswami
FRONTIERS IN EDUCATION
(2020)
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Language & Linguistics
Usha Goswami
LANGUAGE AND LINGUISTICS COMPASS
(2019)
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Neurosciences
Susan Richards, Usha Goswami
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Usha Goswami
CURRENT DIRECTIONS IN PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
(2018)
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Psychology, Developmental
Marina Kalashnikova, Usha Goswami, Denis Burnham
DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE
(2018)
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Psychology, Developmental
Victoria Leong, Usha Goswami
DEVELOPMENTAL SCIENCE
(2017)