title: Ability for voice recognition is a marker for dyslexia in children.
abstract: A recent voice recognition experiment conducted by Perrachione, Del Tufo, and Gabrieli (2011) revealed that, in normal adult readers, the accuracy at identifying human voices was better in the participants' mother tongue than in an unfamiliar language, while this difference was absent in a group of adults with dyslexia. This pattern favored a view of dyslexia as due to "fundamentally impoverished native-language phonological representations." To further examine this issue, we conducted two voice recognition experiments, one with children with/without dyslexia, and the other with adults with/without dyslexia. Results revealed that children/adults with dyslexia were less accurate at identifying voices than normal readers and, importantly, this effect was independent of language. These data are more consistent with the assumption of dyslexia as due to a deficit in multisensory integration rather than a deficit based on impoverished native-language phonologically based representations.
authors: Universitat de València, <location>Spain</location> Basque Center on Cognition, Brain and Language, <location>San Sebastián, Spain</location>
authors: Manuel
authors: M
authors: Perea
authors: Universitat de València, <location>Spain</location>
authors: María
authors: M
authors: Jiménez
authors: Universidad de Oviedo, <location>Spain</location>
authors: Paz
authors: P
authors: Suárez-Coalla
authors: Universidad de Oviedo, <location>Spain</location>
authors: Nohemí
authors: N
authors: Fernández
authors: Universidad de Oviedo, <location>Spain</location>
authors: Cecilia
authors: C
authors: Viña
authors: Universidad de Oviedo, <location>Spain</location>
authors: Fernando
authors: F
authors: Cuetos
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D002648:Child; D004410:Dyslexia / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D008297:Male; D010700:Phonetics; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D014831:Voice; D055815:Young Adult
keywords: dyslexia; phonological deficit; voice recognition