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Reduced Neural Specialization for Word-level Linguistic Prosody in Children with Autism

Auteurs: Luodi Yu, Dan Huang, Suiping Wang, Yang Zhang

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders | Uitgave 11/2023

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Abstract

Children with autism often show atypical brain lateralization for speech and language processing, however, it is unclear what linguistic component contributes to this phenomenon. Here we measured event-related potential (ERP) responses in 21 school-age autistic children and 25 age-matched neurotypical (NT) peers during listening to word-level prosodic stimuli. We found that both groups displayed larger late negative response (LNR) amplitude to native prosody than to nonnative prosody; however, unlike the NT group exhibiting left-lateralized LNR distinction of prosodic phonology, the autism group showed no evidence of LNR lateralization. Moreover, in both groups, the LNR effects were only present for prosodic phonology but not for phoneme-free prosodic acoustics. These results extended the findings of inadequate neural specialization for language in autism to sub-lexical prosodic structures.
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Metagegevens
Titel
Reduced Neural Specialization for Word-level Linguistic Prosody in Children with Autism
Auteurs
Luodi Yu
Dan Huang
Suiping Wang
Yang Zhang
Publicatiedatum
29-08-2022
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders / Uitgave 11/2023
Print ISSN: 0162-3257
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3432
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10803-022-05720-x

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