Long-term influence of recurrent acute otitis media on neural involuntary attention switching in 2-year-old children

Autor: Kalervo Suominen, Elina Niemitalo-Haapola, T. Kujala, Sini Haapala, Teija Kujala, Eira Jansson-Verkasalo, Antti Raappana
Přispěvatelé: Behavioural Sciences, CICERO Learning, Cognitive Brain Research Unit, DyslexiaBaby
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2016
Předmět:
Male
Neurology
Auditory Pathways
Mismatch negativity
Audiology
SPEECH-PERCEPTION
Developmental psychology
Behavioral Neuroscience
MIDDLE-EAR INFECTIONS
0302 clinical medicine
Recurrence
Attention
Early childhood
General Medicine
medicine.anatomical_structure
Child
Preschool
Middle ear
Evoked Potentials
Auditory
Female
medicine.symptom
Psychology
medicine.medical_specialty
515 Psychology
Hearing loss
Cognitive Neuroscience
03 medical and health sciences
P3a
Late negativity
BRAIN POTENTIALS
Event-related potential
030225 pediatrics
medicine
Orienting
Humans
MISMATCH NEGATIVITY
EARLY-CHILDHOOD
Biological Psychiatry
AUDITORY ATTENTION
HEARING-LOSS
Research
Infant
ERPs
NOVELTY DETECTION
Event-Related Potentials
P300
Otitis Media
Involuntary attention
DISCRIMINATION
Auditory Physiology
DISTRACTIBILITY
030217 neurology & neurosurgery
Zdroj: Behavioral and Brain Functions : BBF
ISSN: 1744-9081
Popis: Background: A large group of young children are exposed to repetitive middle ear infections but the effects of the fluctuating hearing sensations on immature central auditory system are not fully understood. The present study investigated the consequences of early childhood recurrent acute otitis media (RAOM) on involuntary auditory attention switching. Methods: By utilizing auditory event-related potentials, neural mechanisms of involuntary attention were studied in 22-26 month-old children (N = 18) who had had an early childhood RAOM and healthy controls (N = 19). The earlier and later phase of the P3a (eP3a and lP3a) and the late negativity (LN) were measured for embedded novel sounds in the passive multi-feature paradigm with repeating standard and deviant syllable stimuli. The children with RAOM had tympanostomy tubes inserted and all the children in both study groups had to have clinically healthy ears at the time of the measurement assessed by an otolaryngologist. Results: The results showed that lP3a amplitude diminished less from frontal to central and parietal areas in the children with RAOM than the controls. This might reflect an immature control of involuntary attention switch. Furthermore, the LN latency was longer in children with RAOM than in the controls, which suggests delayed reorientation of attention in RAOM. Conclusions: The lP3a and LN responses are affected in toddlers who have had a RAOM even when their ears are healthy. This suggests detrimental long-term effects of RAOM on the neural mechanisms of involuntary attention.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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