Temporal Processing Deficits of Language-Learning Impaired Children Ameliorated by Training
@article{Merzenich1996TemporalPD,
title={Temporal Processing Deficits of Language-Learning Impaired Children Ameliorated by Training},
author={Michael Merzenich and William M. Jenkins and Paul A. Johnston and Christoph E. Schreiner and Steven L. Miller and Paula Tallal},
journal={Science},
year={1996},
volume={271},
pages={77 - 81}
}Children with language-based learning impairments (LLIs) have major deficits in their recognition of some rapidly successive phonetic elements and nonspeech sound stimuli. In the current study, LLI children were engaged in adaptive training exercises mounted as computer “games” designed to drive improvements in their “temporal processing” skills. With 8 to 16 hours of training during a 20-day period, LLI children improved markedly in their abilities to recognize brief and fast sequences of…
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