Diminished auditory mismatch fields in dyslexic adults
✍ Scribed by Hanna Renvall; Riitta Hari
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2003
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 462 KB
- Volume
- 53
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0364-5134
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
Electroencephalographic studies have demonstrated smaller auditory responses to infrequent deviances of speech and nonspeech sounds in dyslexic than normal‐reading subjects. We used a whole‐scalp neuromagnetometer to study selectively reactivity of the auditory cortices to sound deviances in 8 dyslexic and 11 normal‐reading adults. Within a monotonous sequence of 50‐millisecond 1,000Hz binaural tones, tones of 920 and 1,080Hz occurred with 7% probability each. Magnetic mismatch fields, elicited by the stimulus deviances, were diminished in the left hemisphere of the dyslexic subjects. The results indicate deficient change detection in the left auditory cortex of right‐handed dyslexic adults. Ann Neurol 2003