The relationship between reasoning and language ability : comparing children with cochlear implants and children with typical hearing
| Autor: | Björn Lyxell, Malin Wass, Michaela Socher, Elias Ingebrand |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
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Analogical reasoning
Voice Quality medicine.medical_treatment 030507 speech-language pathology & audiology 03 medical and health sciences Speech and Hearing 0302 clinical medicine Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Hearing High complexity Cochlear implant medicine Övrig annan medicin och hälsovetenskap Humans 030223 otorhinolaryngology Child Language Language ability Language comprehension analogical reasoning DHH cochlear implant LPN and LVN Cochlear Implantation Other Medical Sciences not elsewhere specified Cochlear Implants 0305 other medical science Psychology Cognitive psychology |
| Popis: | Purpose Language has been suggested to play a facilitating role for analogical reasoning tasks, especially for those with high complexity. This study aims to evaluate if differences in analogical reasoning ability between children with cochlear implants (CI) and children with typical hearing (TH) might be explained by differences in language ability. Methods The analogical reasoning ability (verbal; non-verbal; complex non-verbal: high relational integration demand) of children with CI (N = 15, mean age = 6;7) was compared to two groups of children with TH: age and language matched (TH-A+L, N = 23, mean age = 6;5), and age matched (TH-A, N = 23, mean age = 6;5). Results Children with CI were found to perform comparable to Group TH-A+L on non-verbal reasoning tasks but significantly more poorly on a verbal analogical reasoning task. Children with CI were found to perform significantly more poorly on both the non-verbal analogical reasoning task with high relational integration demand and on the verbal analogical reasoning task compared to Group TH-A. For the non-verbal analogical reasoning task with lower relational integration demand only a tendency for a difference between group CI and Group TH-A was found. Conclusions The results suggest that verbal strategies are influencing the performance on the non-verbal analogical reasoning tasks with a higher relational integration demand. The possible reasons for this are discussed. The verbal analogical reasoning task used in the current study partly measured lexical access. Differences between the children with CI and both groups of children with TH might therefore be explained by differences in expressive vocabulary skills. Funding Agencies|European Union Seventh Framework Program (FP7/2007-2013) [FP7-607139]; Swedish Research Council for Health, Working Life and WelfareSwedish Research CouncilSwedish Research Council for Health Working Life & Welfare (Forte) [2013-01363] |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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