Shorter cortical adaptation in dyslexia is broadly distributed in the superior temporal lobe and includes the primary auditory cortex
Abstract
Studies of performance of individuals with dyslexia on perceptual tasks suggest that their implicit inference of sound statistics is impaired. Previously, using two-tone frequency discrimination, we found that the effect of previous trials' frequencies on judgments of individuals with dyslexia decayed faster than the effect on controls' judgments, and that the adaptation (decrease of neural response to repeated stimuli) of their ERP responses to tones was shorter (Jaffe-Dax et al., 2017). Here, we show the cortical distribution of this abnormal dynamics of adaptation using fast acquisition fMRI. We find that faster decay of adaptation in dyslexia is widespread, though the most significant effects are found in the left superior temporal lobe, including the auditory cortex. This broad distribution suggests that the faster decay of implicit memory of individuals with dyslexia is a general characteristic of their cortical dynamics, which affects also sensory cortices.
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Israel Science Foundation (616/11)
- Merav Ahissar
Gatsby Charitable Foundation
- Merav Ahissar
German-Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (I-1303-105.4/2015)
- Merav Ahissar
Israel Science Foundation (2425/15)
- Merav Ahissar
Canadian Institute for Advanced Research
- Merav Ahissar
Azrieli Foundation
- Merav Ahissar
International Development Research Centre
- Merav Ahissar
The funders had no role in study design, data collection and interpretation, or the decision to submit the work for publication.
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- Andrew J King, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
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Human subjects: Informed consent was acquired from all participants. The study was approved by The Hebrew University Committee for the Use of Human Subject in Research.
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- Received: November 15, 2017
- Accepted: February 27, 2018
- Accepted Manuscript published: February 28, 2018 (version 1)
- Version of Record published: March 20, 2018 (version 2)
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© 2018, Jaffe-Dax et al.
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