Publication Date:
1996-01-05
Description:
Children with language-based learning impairments (LLIs) have major deficits in their recognition of some rapidly successive phonetic elements and nonspeech sound stimuli. In the current study, LLI children were engaged in adaptive training exercises mounted as computer "games" designed to drive improvements in their "temporal processing" skills. With 8 to 16 hours of training during a 20-day period, LLI children improved markedly in their abilities to recognize brief and fast sequences of nonspeech and speech stimuli.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Merzenich, M M -- Jenkins, W M -- Johnston, P -- Schreiner, C -- Miller, S L -- Tallal, P -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 1996 Jan 5;271(5245):77-81.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉W. M. Keck Center for Integrative Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco 94143-0732, USA.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8539603" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Child
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Child, Preschool
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Female
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Humans
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Language Disorders/*therapy
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*Language Therapy
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Learning Disorders/*therapy
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Male
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*Software
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Speech Perception
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*Video Games
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
