Early auditory temporal processing abilities are important for language acquisition and for later reading abilities. In the present study, auditory brainstem responses (ABRs) were recorded in a forward-masking paradigm in healthy, full-term infants aged 6 weeks (n = 111) and 9 months (n = 62). Our purpose was to establish normative values of forward-masking ABRs and investigate the development ...

OBJECTIVE To analyze auditory processing test results in children suffering from otitis media in their first five years of age, considering their age. Furthermore, to classify central auditory processing test findings regarding the hearing skills evaluated. METHODS A total of 109 students between 8 and 12 years old were divided into three groups. The control group consisted of 40 students fro...

In this review paper, the prevalence and characteristics of central auditory processing disorder (CAPD) are reviewed. The causes, pathology and diagnosis of CAPD are also discussed. Recommendations are made for classroom interventions and a case study is presented. CAPDs are complex, heterogeneous disorders involving the process of auditory stimuli within the mechanisms of the central nervous s...

The human auditory cortex is the gateway to the most powerful and complex communication systems and yet relatively little is known about its functional organization as compared to the visual system. Several lines of evidence, predominantly from recent studies, indicate that sound recognition and sound localization are processed in two at least partially independent networks. Evidence from human...

Sensory organ damage induces a host of cellular and physiological changes in the periphery and the brain. Here, we show that some aspects of auditory processing recover after profound cochlear denervation due to a progressive, compensatory plasticity at higher stages of the central auditory pathway. Lesioning >95% of cochlear nerve afferent synapses, while sparing hair cells, in adult mice virt...

That experience was one of the crucial factors that lead us to focus our medical careers on helping children especially gifted children with learning difficulties. In the years since we have had many more encounters with CAPDs, and we are constantly surprised both by their prevalence and by the many difficulties they create in children's lives. Published reports suggest CAPDs affect roughly 2-3...

BACKGROUND This study was conducted to describe the association between central auditory processing mechanism and the cardiac autonomic regulation. METHODS IT WAS RESEARCHED PAPERS ON THE TOPIC ADDRESSED IN THIS STUDY CONSIDERING THE FOLLOWING DATA BASES: Medline, Pubmed, Lilacs, Scopus and Cochrane. The key words were: "auditory stimulation, heart rate, autonomic nervous system and P300". ...

Presbycusis (literally elder hearing) or age-related hearing loss is the inevitable deterioration in hearing that occurs as people get older. While loss of the highest frequencies can be detected in young adulthood, it is not until the 6th decade and beyond that clinically significant hearing loss is evident. Presbycusis is a multifactorial process that affects people in their senior years in d...

There is an increasing need for state-of-the-art Central Auditory Processing assessment Portuguese native speakers, applicable as early possible. As a contribution to answering this need, paper presents new battery European children aged 5 and above, named BAPA-PE, providing information regarding test selection development. The consists of six behavioral tests: Staggered Spondaic Words (SSW) Po...

Results of an online questionnaire probing audiologists' professional education and clinical practices in central auditory processing and its disorders are reported. Respondents demonstrated scant knowledge of the efficiency of central auditory tests and procedures; however, they were rather consistent in reporting more frequent use of tests and procedures they rated as more efficient. Many of ...