Natasha Mead

TL;DR: It is shown that individual differences in the perception of amplitude envelope rise time are linked to musical meetrical sensitivity, and that musical metrical sensitivity predicts PA and reading development, accounting for over 60% of variance in reading along with age and I.Q.

TL;DR: The data support a language-universal theory of the neural basis of developmental dyslexia on the basis of rhythmic perception and syllable segmentation and suggest that novel remediation strategies on the based of rhythm and music may offer benefits for phonological and linguistic development.

TL;DR: It is shown that children with dyslexia have excellent phonetic discrimination based on formant transition duration, but poor phoneticdiscrimination based on envelope cues, which explains why phonetic Discrimination may be allophonic in developmental Dyslexia and suggest new avenues for the remediation of developmental dyslexi.

TL;DR: The non-linguistic musical beat structure task is an important independent longitudinal and concurrent predictor of variance in reading attainment by children, and individual differences in the perception of rhythmic timing are an important shared neural basis forindividual differences in children in linguistic and musical processing.

TL;DR: Encoding accuracy is significantly above chance for all groups but poorer in dyslexic children than younger RL-matched children and individual differences in encoding accuracy are related to prosodic awareness.