Maaike Vandermosten|Bart Boets|Heleen Luts|Hanne Poelmans|Narly Golestani|Johan Wouters|Pol Ghesquière
Adults with dyslexia are impaired in categorizing speech and nonspeech sounds on the basis of temporal cues
KU Leuven|KU Leuven|KU Leuven|KU Leuven|University of Geneva|University College London|KU Leuven
developmental dyslexia characterized severe reading spelling difficulties persistent resistant usual didactic measures remedial efforts well established major cause problems lies poorly specified representations speech sounds one hypothesis states phonological deficit results fundamental deficit auditory processing despite substantial research effort specific nature auditory problems remains debated first controversy concerns speech specificity auditory processing problems reduced basic auditory processing specific perception speech sounds second topic debate concerns extent auditory problems specific processing rapidly changing temporal information whether encompass broader range complex spectrotemporal processing applying balanced design stimuli adequately controlled acoustic complexity show adults dyslexia specifically impaired categorizing speech nonspeech sounds differ terms rapidly changing acoustic cues ie temporal cues perform adequately categorizing steadystate speech nonspeech sounds thus show individuals dyslexia auditory temporal processing deficit speechspecific