Left temporal impairment of auditory information processing in prematurely born 9-year-old children: An electrophysiological study
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- 作者：Marie Gomot ; Nicole Bruneau ; Jean-Paul Laurent ; Catherine Barthé ; lé ; my ; Elie Saliba
- 关键词：Preterm children ; Auditory ; Change detection ; MMN ; N250 ; Topography
- 刊名：International Journal of Psychophysiology
- 出版年：2007
- 出版时间：May 2007
- 年：2007
- 卷：64
- 期：2
- 页码：123-129
- 全文大小：261 K
文摘
Children born preterm more than average display cognitive difficulties that are significant enough to prevent normal schooling. The aim of our study was to provide better understanding of the long-term neuropathological processes associated with preterm injury, through the hypothesis that mild cognitive disorders might be related to slight deficits in primary functions such as attention and perception. Assessment of auditory pre-attentive processes was performed by recording the obligatory sensory response (N250) and the change-detection response (Mismatch Negativity, MMN). Topographic study of these responses was performed in fifteen 9-year-old children born preterm (27–33 weeks gestational age) matched to fifteen control children born at term. The auditory stimulus sequence consisted of 1000 Hz standard and 1100 Hz deviant tones (15 % ) delivered binaurally with an interstimulus interval of 700 ms. The results showed that MMN was similar in both groups. Analysis of the responses to standard repetitive tones demonstrated significantly smaller N250 wave amplitude in children born preterm. Scalp current density maps showed that this reduction in amplitude was associated with lower activity of both frontal and left supratemporal generators. Although the functional significance of the N250 wave in children remains to be clarified, our results indicate a disorder of auditory processes related to prematurity that might have consequences on the development of higher-level processes.