Conflict of interest: non-existent and the temporal lobe and the superior olivary complex would be responsible for the perception of sequential patterns of stimuli and the encoding of temporal information2. The literature has described comorbidities among the symptoms of children with attention defficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and auditory processing (AP) and such symptoms have been negle...

Selectively attending to task-relevant sounds whilst ignoring background noise is one of the most amazing feats performed by the human brain. Here, we studied the underlying neural mechanisms by recording magnetoencephalographic (MEG) responses of 14 healthy human subjects while they performed a near-threshold auditory discrimination task vs. a visual control task of similar difficulty. The aud...

Individuals with developmental dyslexia are often impaired in their ability to process certain linguistic and even basic non-linguistic auditory signals. Recent investigations report conflicting findings regarding impaired low-level binaural detection mechanisms associated with dyslexia. Binaural impairment has been hypothesized to stem from a general low-level processing disorder for temporall...

The aim of this study was to verify which stages of language processing are impaired in individuals with dyslexia. For this, a visual-auditory crossmodal task with semantic judgment was used. The P100 potentials were chosen, related to visual processing and initial integration, and N400 potentials related to semantic processing. Based on visual-auditory crossmodal studies, it is understood that...

Two speaker independent speech recognition experiments, regarding the automatic discrimination of the Italian alphabet I-set and E-set, two very difficult Italian phonetic classes, will be described. The speech signal is analyzed by a recently developed joint synchrony/mean-rate auditory processing scheme and a fully-connected feed-forward recurrent BP network was used for the classification st...

What is CAPD? Children and adults who have central auditory processing disorder (CAPD) are a heterogeneous group of people who have difficulty using auditory information to communicate and learn. CAPD is not a specific problem or disease; rather it is a set of problems that occur in different kinds of listening tasks. Often children with CAPD are first diagnosed with attention deficit hyperacti...