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Prolonged Development of Temporal Processing in Adolescence
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Gay, Jennifer D.
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http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1595372610901194
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Year and Degree
2020, PHD, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / School of Biomedical Sciences.
Abstract
When considering development, most often attention is paid to the progression seen in utero and within the first few years of life, where changes are both rapid and dramatic. This neglects a wide range of percepts that can continue to develop throughout childhood and adolescence, even into early adulthood. Auditory perception is one such skill thought by many to be mature quite early on, as young children learn to both understand and produce speech with a fairly high degree of competency. This fails to capture the entire picture of development however and there is increasing research showing that the maturational timeline of audition can actually be quite prolonged. Understanding the developmental trajectory of auditory perception is of high importance as abilities that are not mature until quite late can be particularly sensitive to developmental perturbations, such as hearing loss. If we do not understand what the normal maturational trajectory looks like, then we cannot identify and intervene when problems arise. The work presented here aims to explore both the maturational trajectory of human perceptual development from late childhood to early adulthood along with neural encoding in juvenile and adult A1 of Mongolian gerbils (Meriones unguiculatus). I will explore the maturation of two auditory percepts important for our understanding of speech and language: 1) duration discrimination and 2) gap detection with varying gap onset times. Better understanding of both perceptual and neural abilities will allow for a more complete picture of adolescent development and provide opportunities for future work to explore early interventions for percepts critical for development of speech and language abilities.
Committee
Merri Rosen (Advisor)
Pages
95 p.
Subject Headings
Biomedical Research
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Neurobiology
Keywords
Auditory
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auditory perception
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temporal processing
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adolescent development
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auditory cortex
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Gay, J. D. (2020).
Prolonged Development of Temporal Processing in Adolescence
[Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1595372610901194
APA Style (7th edition)
Gay, Jennifer.
Prolonged Development of Temporal Processing in Adolescence .
2020. Kent State University, Doctoral dissertation.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1595372610901194.
MLA Style (8th edition)
Gay, Jennifer. "Prolonged Development of Temporal Processing in Adolescence ." Doctoral dissertation, Kent State University, 2020. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1595372610901194
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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