Neural mechanism reveals why dyslexic brain has trouble distinguishing speech from noise
Thursday, November 12, 2009 - 03:21
in Psychology & Sociology
New research reveals that children with developmental dyslexia have a deficit in a brain mechanism involved in the perception of speech in a noisy environment. The study, published by Cell Press in the November 12 issue of the journal Neuron, provides the first direct evidence that the human auditory brainstem exhibits remarkable moment-to-moment plasticity and undergoes a fine tuning that is strongly associated with noise exclusion...