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PMID: 23217289 Owner: NLM Status: In-Data-Review |
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ABSTRACT This study tests the hypothesis that developmental dyslexia is (partly) caused by a deficit in implicit sequential learning, by investigating whether infants at familial risk of dyslexia can track non-adjacent dependencies in an artificial language. An implicit learning deficit would hinder detection of such dependencies, which mark grammatical relations (e.g. between 'is' and '-ing' in 'she is happily singing'). In a head-turn experiment with infants aged 1;6, family risk and typically developing infants were exposed to one of two novel languages containing dependencies of the type a-X-c, b-X-d or a-X-d, b-X-c, with fixed first and third elements and twenty-four different X elements. During test, typically developing children listened longer to ungrammatical strings (i.e. that did not correspond to their training language). However, family-risk children did not discriminate between grammatical and ungrammatical strings, indicating deficient implicit learning. The implications of these findings in relation to dyslexia and other language-based disorders are discussed. |
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Annemarie Kerkhoff; Elise DE Bree; Maartje DE Klerk; Frank Wijnen |
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Type: Journal Article |
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Title: Journal of child language Volume: 40 ISSN: 1469-7602 ISO Abbreviation: J Child Lang Publication Date: 2013 Jan |
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Created Date: 2012-12-11 Completed Date: - Revised Date: - |
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Nlm Unique ID: 0425743 Medline TA: J Child Lang Country: England |
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Languages: eng Pagination: 11-28 Citation Subset: IM |
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Utrecht University. |
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