Children’s Neural Sensitivity to Prosodic Features of Natural Speech and Its Significance to Speech Development in Cochlear Implanted Children
Catchy utterances, such as proverbs, verses, and nursery rhymes (i.e., “No pain, no gain” in English), contain strong-prosodic (SP) features and are child-friendly in repeating and memorizing; yet the way those prosodic features encoded by neural activity and their influence on speech development in...
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| author | Yuebo Chen Qinqin Luo Qinqin Luo Maojin Liang Leyan Gao Jingwen Yang Jingwen Yang Ruiyan Feng Jiahao Liu Jiahao Liu Guoxin Qiu Yi Li Yiqing Zheng Yiqing Zheng Shuo Lu Shuo Lu |
| author_facet | Yuebo Chen Qinqin Luo Qinqin Luo Maojin Liang Leyan Gao Jingwen Yang Jingwen Yang Ruiyan Feng Jiahao Liu Jiahao Liu Guoxin Qiu Yi Li Yiqing Zheng Yiqing Zheng Shuo Lu Shuo Lu |
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| description | Catchy utterances, such as proverbs, verses, and nursery rhymes (i.e., “No pain, no gain” in English), contain strong-prosodic (SP) features and are child-friendly in repeating and memorizing; yet the way those prosodic features encoded by neural activity and their influence on speech development in children are still largely unknown. Using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), this study investigated the cortical responses to the perception of natural speech sentences with strong/weak-prosodic (SP/WP) features and evaluated the speech communication ability in 21 pre-lingually deaf children with cochlear implantation (CI) and 25 normal hearing (NH) children. A comprehensive evaluation of speech communication ability was conducted on all the participants to explore the potential correlations between neural activities and children’s speech development. The SP information evoked right-lateralized cortical responses across a broad brain network in NH children and facilitated the early integration of linguistic information, highlighting children’s neural sensitivity to natural SP sentences. In contrast, children with CI showed significantly weaker cortical activation and characteristic deficits in speech perception with SP features, suggesting hearing loss at the early age of life, causing significantly impaired sensitivity to prosodic features of sentences. Importantly, the level of neural sensitivity to SP sentences was significantly related to the speech behaviors of all children participants. These findings demonstrate the significance of speech prosodic features in children’s speech development. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-7817d69c43264319a2d621e8b9cb48712022-12-22T03:07:56ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Neuroscience1662-453X2022-07-011610.3389/fnins.2022.892894892894Children’s Neural Sensitivity to Prosodic Features of Natural Speech and Its Significance to Speech Development in Cochlear Implanted ChildrenYuebo Chen0Qinqin Luo1Qinqin Luo2Maojin Liang3Leyan Gao4Jingwen Yang5Jingwen Yang6Ruiyan Feng7Jiahao Liu8Jiahao Liu9Guoxin Qiu10Yi Li11Yiqing Zheng12Yiqing Zheng13Shuo Lu14Shuo Lu15Department of Otolaryngology, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, ChinaDepartment of Chinese Language and Literature, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, Hong Kong SAR, ChinaSchool of Foreign Languages, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, ChinaDepartment of Otolaryngology, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, ChinaNeurolinguistics Teaching Laboratory, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, ChinaDepartment of Neurology, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, ChinaDepartment of Clinical Neurolinguistics Research, Mental and Neurological Diseases Research Center, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, ChinaNeurolinguistics Teaching Laboratory, Department of Chinese Language and Literature, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, ChinaDepartment of Otolaryngology, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, ChinaHearing and Speech Science Department, Guangzhou Xinhua University, Guangzhou, ChinaDepartment of Clinical Neurolinguistics Research, Mental and Neurological Diseases Research Center, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, ChinaSchool of Foreign Languages, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, ChinaDepartment of Otolaryngology, Sun Yat-sen Memorial Hospital, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, ChinaHearing and Speech Science Department, Guangzhou Xinhua University, Guangzhou, ChinaSchool of Foreign Languages, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, ChinaDepartment of Clinical Neurolinguistics Research, Mental and Neurological Diseases Research Center, The Third Affiliated Hospital of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, ChinaCatchy utterances, such as proverbs, verses, and nursery rhymes (i.e., “No pain, no gain” in English), contain strong-prosodic (SP) features and are child-friendly in repeating and memorizing; yet the way those prosodic features encoded by neural activity and their influence on speech development in children are still largely unknown. Using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS), this study investigated the cortical responses to the perception of natural speech sentences with strong/weak-prosodic (SP/WP) features and evaluated the speech communication ability in 21 pre-lingually deaf children with cochlear implantation (CI) and 25 normal hearing (NH) children. A comprehensive evaluation of speech communication ability was conducted on all the participants to explore the potential correlations between neural activities and children’s speech development. The SP information evoked right-lateralized cortical responses across a broad brain network in NH children and facilitated the early integration of linguistic information, highlighting children’s neural sensitivity to natural SP sentences. In contrast, children with CI showed significantly weaker cortical activation and characteristic deficits in speech perception with SP features, suggesting hearing loss at the early age of life, causing significantly impaired sensitivity to prosodic features of sentences. Importantly, the level of neural sensitivity to SP sentences was significantly related to the speech behaviors of all children participants. These findings demonstrate the significance of speech prosodic features in children’s speech development.https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2022.892894/fullnatural speech perceptionprosodic featureneural responsecochlear implantationspeech communication abilitytemporal cortex |
| spellingShingle | Yuebo Chen Qinqin Luo Qinqin Luo Maojin Liang Leyan Gao Jingwen Yang Jingwen Yang Ruiyan Feng Jiahao Liu Jiahao Liu Guoxin Qiu Yi Li Yiqing Zheng Yiqing Zheng Shuo Lu Shuo Lu Children’s Neural Sensitivity to Prosodic Features of Natural Speech and Its Significance to Speech Development in Cochlear Implanted Children Frontiers in Neuroscience natural speech perception prosodic feature neural response cochlear implantation speech communication ability temporal cortex |
| title | Children’s Neural Sensitivity to Prosodic Features of Natural Speech and Its Significance to Speech Development in Cochlear Implanted Children |
| title_full | Children’s Neural Sensitivity to Prosodic Features of Natural Speech and Its Significance to Speech Development in Cochlear Implanted Children |
| title_fullStr | Children’s Neural Sensitivity to Prosodic Features of Natural Speech and Its Significance to Speech Development in Cochlear Implanted Children |
| title_full_unstemmed | Children’s Neural Sensitivity to Prosodic Features of Natural Speech and Its Significance to Speech Development in Cochlear Implanted Children |
| title_short | Children’s Neural Sensitivity to Prosodic Features of Natural Speech and Its Significance to Speech Development in Cochlear Implanted Children |
| title_sort | children s neural sensitivity to prosodic features of natural speech and its significance to speech development in cochlear implanted children |
| topic | natural speech perception prosodic feature neural response cochlear implantation speech communication ability temporal cortex |
| url | https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fnins.2022.892894/full |
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