Control of Auditory Attention in Children with Specific Language Impairment

Autor/inn/en	Victorino, Kristen R.; Schwartz, Richard G.
Titel	Control of Auditory Attention in Children with Specific Language Impairment
Quelle	In: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 58 (2015) 4, S.1245-1257 (13 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1092-4388
DOI	10.1044/2015_JSLHR-L-14-0181
Schlagwörter	Attention Control; Auditory Perception; Language Impairments; Children; Matched Groups; Auditory Stimuli; Task Analysis; Accuracy; Reaction Time; Comparative Analysis; Performance; Inhibition; Pictorial Stimuli; Decision Making; Word Recognition; Audio Equipment; Listening Skills + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Aufmerksamkeitstest; Auditive Wahrnehmung; Akustische Wahrnehmung; Akustik; Speech disorder; Speech disorders; Speech disabilities; Speech disability; Speech handicap; Speech handicaps; Speech impairment; Speech impairments; Language handicaps; Sprachbehinderung; Child; Kind; Kinder; Auditive Stimulation; Aufgabenanalyse; Reaktionsvermögen; Achievement; Leistung; Hemmung; Fantasieanregung; Decision-making; Entscheidungsfindung; Worterkennung; Audio-CD
Abstract	Purpose: Children with specific language impairment (SLI) appear to demonstrate deficits in attention and its control. Selective attention involves the cognitive control of attention directed toward a relevant stimulus and simultaneous inhibition of attention toward irrelevant stimuli. The current study examined attention control during a cross-modal word recognition task. Method: Twenty participants with SLI (ages 9-12 years) and 20 age-matched peers with typical language development (TLD) listened to words through headphones and were instructed to attend to the words in 1 ear while ignoring the words in the other ear. They were simultaneously presented with pictures and asked to make a lexical decision about whether the pictures and auditory words were the same or different. Accuracy and reaction time were measured in 5 conditions, in which the stimulus in the unattended channel was manipulated. Results: The groups performed with similar accuracy. Compared with their peers with TLD, children with SLI had slower reaction times overall and different within-group patterns of performance by condition. Conclusions: Children with TLD showed efficient inhibitory control in conditions that required active suppression of competing stimuli. Participants with SLI had difficulty exerting control over their auditory attention in all conditions, with particular difficulty inhibiting distractors of all types. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01