Abstract
Developmental dyslexia is frequently associated with phonological difficulties such as poor phonological awareness, access, or short term memory skills, that further impede the acquisition of letter-to-sound mappings. Some hypotheses suggest that phonological disorders in dyslexia are themselves caused by a more basic auditory processing deficit. Here, we review evidence showing that a high sensitivity to auditory rhythmic cues may be critical for phonological and reading development. Moreover, the brain signature of prosodic and rhythmic processing difficulties in dyslexia may reside in atypical right hemisphere synchronization to slow frequency auditory modulations, that would then generate left hemisphere-based dyslexic reading symptoms. Overall, the data presented in this chapter suggests that interventions aimed at facilitating the extraction of rhythmic and temporally regular patterns in auditory sequences could improve reading in dyslexia through the enhancement of phonological skills.
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Neural entrainment at 2 Hz might not be critical for processing speech, as evidence in the similarity between neural entrainment at 2 Hz during speech processing and resting activity at 2 Hz (see Fig. 1 in Molinaro et al. 2016)
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Lallier, M., Lizarazu, M., Molinaro, N., Bourguignon, M., Ríos-López, P., Carreiras, M. (2018). From Auditory Rhythm Processing to Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion: How Neural Oscillations Can Shed Light on Developmental Dyslexia. In: Lachmann, T., Weis, T. (eds) Reading and Dyslexia. Literacy Studies, vol 16. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-90805-2_8
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