D V M Bishop

Summary

Affiliation: University of Oxford
Country: UK

Publications

  1. ncbi Klinefelter syndrome as a window on the aetiology of language and communication impairments in children: the neuroligin-neurexin hypothesis
    Dorothy V M Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
    Acta Paediatr 100:903-7. 2011
  2. ncbi The SCAN-C in testing for auditory processing disorder in a sample of British children
    Piers Dawes
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
    Int J Audiol 46:780-6. 2007
  3. ncbi Heritability of specific language impairment depends on diagnostic criteria
    D V M Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
    Genes Brain Behav 7:365-72. 2008
  4. ncbi Curing dyslexia and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder by training motor co-ordination: miracle or myth?
    Dorothy V M Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, UK
    J Paediatr Child Health 43:653-5. 2007
  5. ncbi Atypical long-latency auditory event-related potentials in a subset of children with specific language impairment
    Dorothy V M Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    Dev Sci 10:576-87. 2007
  6. ncbi Auditory deficit as a consequence rather than endophenotype of specific language impairment: electrophysiological evidence
    D V M Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
    PLoS ONE 7:e35851. 2012
  7. ncbi Parental phonological memory contributes to prediction of outcome of late talkers from 20 months to 4 years: a longitudinal study of precursors of specific language impairment
    Dorothy Vm Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3UD, UK
    J Neurodev Disord 4:3. 2012
  8. ncbi Lateralised visual attention is unrelated to language lateralisation, and not influenced by task difficulty - a functional transcranial Doppler study
    Richard E Rosch
    Magdalen College, University of Oxford, UK
    Neuropsychologia 50:810-5. 2012
  9. ncbi Delayed retention of new word-forms is better in children than adults regardless of language ability: a factorial two-way study
    Dorothy V M Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
    PLoS ONE 7:e37326. 2012
  10. ncbi Where were those rabbits? A new paradigm to determine cerebral lateralisation of visuospatial memory function in children
    Margriet A Groen
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
    Neuropsychologia 49:3265-71. 2011

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Publications99

  1. ncbi Klinefelter syndrome as a window on the aetiology of language and communication impairments in children: the neuroligin-neurexin hypothesis
    Dorothy V M Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
    Acta Paediatr 100:903-7. 2011
    ..To compare the phenotype in Klinefelter syndrome (KS) with (i) specific language impairment (SLI) and (ii) XXX and XYY trisomies...
  2. ncbi The SCAN-C in testing for auditory processing disorder in a sample of British children
    Piers Dawes
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
    Int J Audiol 46:780-6. 2007
    ..Implications for use of the SCAN-C with UK children are discussed...
  3. ncbi Heritability of specific language impairment depends on diagnostic criteria
    D V M Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
    Genes Brain Behav 7:365-72. 2008
    ..Genetic studies are more likely to find high heritability if they focus on cases who have speech difficulties and who have been referred for intervention...
  4. ncbi Curing dyslexia and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder by training motor co-ordination: miracle or myth?
    Dorothy V M Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, UK
    J Paediatr Child Health 43:653-5. 2007
    ..It is important that family practitioners and paediatricians are aware that the claims made for this expensive treatment are misleading...
  5. ncbi Atypical long-latency auditory event-related potentials in a subset of children with specific language impairment
    Dorothy V M Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    Dev Sci 10:576-87. 2007
    ..This poorer correspondence was seen in responses to both tone and speech stimuli for the period 100-228 ms post stimulus onset. The effect was lateralized and seen at right- but not left-sided electrodes...
  6. ncbi Auditory deficit as a consequence rather than endophenotype of specific language impairment: electrophysiological evidence
    D V M Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
    PLoS ONE 7:e35851. 2012
    ..We focused on the T-complex, an event-related peak that has different origins and developmental course from the well-known vertex response...
  7. ncbi Parental phonological memory contributes to prediction of outcome of late talkers from 20 months to 4 years: a longitudinal study of precursors of specific language impairment
    Dorothy Vm Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3UD, UK
    J Neurodev Disord 4:3. 2012
    ..abstract:..
  8. ncbi Lateralised visual attention is unrelated to language lateralisation, and not influenced by task difficulty - a functional transcranial Doppler study
    Richard E Rosch
    Magdalen College, University of Oxford, UK
    Neuropsychologia 50:810-5. 2012
    ....
  9. ncbi Delayed retention of new word-forms is better in children than adults regardless of language ability: a factorial two-way study
    Dorothy V M Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
    PLoS ONE 7:e37326. 2012
    ..Here we considered whether rate of learning of novel phonological sequences was impaired when the same items were presented repeatedly...
  10. ncbi Where were those rabbits? A new paradigm to determine cerebral lateralisation of visuospatial memory function in children
    Margriet A Groen
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
    Neuropsychologia 49:3265-71. 2011
    ..As such, it holds promise for investigating development of lateralisation of visuospatial function in typically and atypically developing children...
  11. ncbi Atypical cerebral lateralisation in adults with compensated developmental dyslexia demonstrated using functional transcranial Doppler ultrasound
    Sarah Illingworth
    University of Oxford, Department of Experimental Psychology, OX1 3UD, United Kingdom
    Brain Lang 111:61-5. 2009
    ..Theoretical explanations for this apparent conundrum are discussed...
  12. ncbi Maturation of auditory temporal integration and inhibition assessed with event-related potentials (ERPs)
    Allison M Fox
    School of Psychology, University of Western Australia, Perth, Australia
    BMC Neurosci 11:49. 2010
    ....
  13. ncbi Using mismatch negativity to study central auditory processing in developmental language and literacy impairments: where are we, and where should we be going?
    D V M Bishop
    Department of Experimental PsychologyUniveristy of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
    Psychol Bull 133:651-72. 2007
    ..The article concludes with recommendations for improving this state of affairs...
  14. ncbi Dyslexia: what's the problem?
    Dorothy V M Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
    Dev Sci 9:256-7; discussion 265-9. 2006
  15. ncbi Distinct genetic influences on grammar and phonological short-term memory deficits: evidence from 6-year-old twins
    D V M Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
    Genes Brain Behav 5:158-69. 2006
    ..From an evolutionary perspective, these data are consistent with the view that language is a complex function that depends on multiple underlying skills with distinct genetic origins...
  16. ncbi High heritability of speech and language impairments in 6-year-old twins demonstrated using parent and teacher report
    Dorothy V M Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    Behav Genet 36:173-84. 2006
    ..This study shows that there are strong genetic influences on both structural and pragmatic language impairments in children, and these can be detected using a simple checklist completed by parents or teachers...
  17. ncbi Maturation of the long-latency auditory ERP: step function changes at start and end of adolescence
    Dorothy V M Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
    Dev Sci 10:565-75. 2007
    ..Three developmental periods were clearly distinguished: 5 to 12 years, 13 to 16 years, and adulthood. However, within each of these periods, there was no evidence of any developmental progression with age...
  18. ncbi Developmental cognitive genetics: how psychology can inform genetics and vice versa
    Dorothy V M Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 59:1153-68. 2006
    ....
  19. ncbi The role of genes in the etiology of specific language impairment
    D V M Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
    J Commun Disord 35:311-28. 2002
    ....
  20. ncbi Characteristics of the broader phenotype in autism: a study of siblings using the children's communication checklist-2
    Dorothy V M Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom
    Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 141:117-22. 2006
    ..The CCC-2 shows promise as a quick screening device for the broad phenotype in non-autistic siblings of children with autism...
  21. ncbi Resistance of grammatical impairment to computerized comprehension training in children with specific and non-specific language impairments
    D V M Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    Int J Lang Commun Disord 41:19-40. 2006
    ..Receptive language impairments in school-age children have a poor prognosis, yet there is a dearth of research on effective interventions...
  22. ncbi DeFries-Fulker analysis of twin data with skewed distributions: cautions and recommendations from a study of children's use of verb inflections
    D V M Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3UD, UK
    Behav Genet 35:479-90. 2005
    ..Both these features were seen in data from a test of verb inflections given to 174 6-year-old twin pairs, suggesting that a single major gene may be implicated in causing impaired grammatical development...
  23. ncbi Electrophysiological evidence implicates automatic low-level feature detectors in perceptual asymmetry
    D V M Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, OX1 3UD, UK
    Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 24:177-9. 2005
    ..These results suggest that perceptual asymmetry reflects the automatic activation of low-level feature detectors in the auditory system...
  24. ncbi Individual differences in auditory processing in specific language impairment: a follow-up study using event-related potentials and behavioural thresholds
    Dorothy V M Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
    Cortex 41:327-41. 2005
    ..This study emphasises the variability seen in SLI, and the importance of studying individual cases rather than focusing on group means...
  25. ncbi Is auditory discrimination mature by middle childhood? A study using time-frequency analysis of mismatch responses from 7 years to adulthood
    Dorothy V M Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    Dev Sci 14:402-16. 2011
    ..Previous reports of adult-like MMN amplitudes in children may be artefactual results of using peak measurements when comparing groups that differ in variance...
  26. ncbi Which neurodevelopmental disorders get researched and why?
    Dorothy V M Bishop
    Developmental Neuropsychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
    PLoS ONE 5:e15112. 2010
    ..There are substantial differences in the amount of research concerned with different disorders. This paper considers why...
  27. ncbi Lower-frequency event-related desynchronization: a signature of late mismatch responses to sounds, which is reduced or absent in children with specific language impairment
    Dorothy V M Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, OX1 3UD Oxford, UK
    J Neurosci 30:15578-84. 2010
    ..This provides compelling evidence for a low-level auditory perceptual impairment in SLI that affects a processing stage after initial detection of a sound change...
  28. ncbi Autism, language and communication in children with sex chromosome trisomies
    Dorothy V M Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Tinbergen Building, 2, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3UD, UK
    Arch Dis Child 96:954-9. 2011
    ..The authors recruited the largest sample including all three SCTs to be reported to date, including children identified on prenatal screening, to clarify this issue...
  29. ncbi Overlaps between autism and language impairment: phenomimicry or shared etiology?
    D V M Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3UD, UK
    Behav Genet 40:618-29. 2010
    ..The simulations further suggest that the shape of distributions of phenotypic trait scores for different genotypes may provide evidence of whether a gene is involved in epistasis...
  30. ncbi Measurement of mismatch negativity in individuals: a study using single-trial analysis
    D V M Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK OX1 3UD
    Psychophysiology 47:697-705. 2010
    ..Single-trial methods can indicate which people show MMN. However, in some clinically normal individuals there was no MMN, despite good behavioral discrimination of stimuli...
  31. ncbi Children who read words accurately despite language impairment: who are they and how do they do it?
    Dorothy V M Bishop
    University of Oxford, UK
    Child Dev 80:593-605. 2009
    ..Poor language need not hinder acquisition of decoding, so long as rapid serial naming is intact; reading comprehension, however, is constrained by LI...
  32. ncbi Identifying language impairment in children: combining language test scores with parental report
    Dorothy V M Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford Study of Children s Communication Impairments, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    Int J Lang Commun Disord 44:600-15. 2009
    ..Children who meet language test criteria for specific language impairment (SLI) are not necessarily the same as those who are referred to a speech and language therapist...
  33. ncbi Genes, cognition, and communication: insights from neurodevelopmental disorders
    D V M Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
    Ann N Y Acad Sci 1156:1-18. 2009
    ..It is important to be aware that the effect sizes associated with these variants are typically small and hard to detect without extremely large sample sizes...
  34. ncbi An efficient and reliable method for measuring cerebral lateralization during speech with functional transcranial Doppler ultrasound
    Dorothy V M Bishop
    University of Oxford, UK
    Neuropsychologia 47:587-90. 2009
    ....
  35. ncbi Autism and diagnostic substitution: evidence from a study of adults with a history of developmental language disorder
    Dorothy V M Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    Dev Med Child Neurol 50:341-5. 2008
    ..Some children who would nowadays be diagnosed unambiguously with autistic disorder had been diagnosed with developmental language disorder in the past. This finding has implications for our understanding of the epidemiology of autism...
  36. ncbi Forty years on: Uta Frith's contribution to research on autism and dyslexia, 1966-2006
    Dorothy V M Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 61:16-26. 2008
    ..In this enterprise she has encouraged psychologists to work in a theoretical framework that distinguishes between observed behaviour and the underlying cognitive and neurobiological processes that mediate that behaviour...
  37. ncbi Handedness and specific language impairment: a study of 6-year-old twins
    D V M Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3UD, United Kingdom
    Dev Psychobiol 46:362-9. 2005
    ..Furthermore, genetic analysis showed that the QHP measure, unlike the handedness inventory, was significantly heritable...
  38. ncbi Individual differences in handedness and specific speech and language impairment: evidence against a genetic link
    D V Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford
    Behav Genet 31:339-51. 2001
    ..Insofar as there are links between handedness and speech and language difficulties, these reflect delayed neuromotor maturation...
  39. ncbi Conversational responsiveness in specific language impairment: evidence of disproportionate pragmatic difficulties in a subset of children
    D V Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University, UK
    Dev Psychopathol 12:177-99. 2000
    ..The analytic methods developed for this project have promise for the study of pragmatic difficulties in other clinical groups...
  40. ncbi Genetic influences on language impairment and literacy problems in children: same or different?
    D V Bishop
    Dept Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
    J Child Psychol Psychiatry 42:189-98. 2001
    ..Thus the different pattern of results in the two studies can be explained if one assumes that genetic influences are substantial only when literacy problems are severe and/or accompanied by oral language difficulties...
  41. ncbi Cerebellar abnormalities in developmental dyslexia: cause, correlate or consequence?
    Dorothy V M Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    Cortex 38:491-8. 2002
  42. ncbi Are phonological processing deficits part of the broad autism phenotype?
    Dorothy V M Bishop
    Oxford Study of Children s Communication Impairments, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3UD, UK
    Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 128:54-60. 2004
    ..However, they did not have poorer scores on the phonological measures. It is concluded that phonological processing deficits are not part of the broad autism phenotype...
  43. ncbi Individual differences in cognitive planning on the Tower of Hanoi task: neuropsychological maturity or measurement error?
    D V Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
    J Child Psychol Psychiatry 42:551-6. 2001
    ..Another study using automated ToL obtained much poorer scores, suggesting that computerised presentation may impair children's performance...
  44. ncbi Motor immaturity and specific speech and language impairment: evidence for a common genetic basis
    Dorothy V M Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, England
    Am J Med Genet 114:56-63. 2002
    ..It is concluded that genes that put the child at risk for communicative problems also affect motor development, with the association being most evident when speech production is affected...
  45. ncbi Parent and teacher report of pragmatic aspects of communication: use of the children's communication checklist in a clinical setting
    D V Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
    Dev Med Child Neurol 43:809-18. 2001
    ..The strongest relation between the pragmatic composite and diagnosis was seen when ratings from parents and professionals were combined. Differences between diagnostic groups were not explicable in terms of age or verbal IQ...
  46. ncbi Genetic and environmental risks for specific language impairment in children
    D V Bishop
    Oxford Study of Children s Communication Impairments, Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford OX1 3UD, UK
    Philos Trans R Soc Lond B Biol Sci 356:369-80. 2001
    ..Research is reviewed that suggests that may not be a fruitful approach to SLI, and that an approach in terms of multiple risk and protective factors, which is widely adopted in medicine, is more realistic...
  47. ncbi Exploring the borderlands of autistic disorder and specific language impairment: a study using standardised diagnostic instruments
    Dorothy V M Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
    J Child Psychol Psychiatry 43:917-29. 2002
    ....
  48. ncbi How does the brain learn language? Insights from the study of children with and without language impairment
    D V Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
    Dev Med Child Neurol 42:133-42. 2000
    ..We should not, however, conclude that the language difficulties are immutable...
  49. ncbi Using self-report to identify the broad phenotype in parents of children with autistic spectrum disorders: a study using the Autism-Spectrum Quotient
    Dorothy V M Bishop
    Oxford University, UK
    J Child Psychol Psychiatry 45:1431-6. 2004
    ....
  50. ncbi Executive functions in children with communication impairments, in relation to autistic symptomatology. 2: Response inhibition
    Dorothy V M Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    Autism 9:29-43. 2005
    ..Reliance on control groups matched solely on vocabulary level or nonverbal mental age may obscure the important role played by language skills in executive functions...
  51. ncbi Executive functions in children with communication impairments, in relation to autistic symptomatology. 1: Generativity
    Dorothy V M Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    Autism 9:7-27. 2005
    ..It is often assumed that pragmatic difficulties are caused by limitations of social cognition. This study suggests that difficulties in generating relevant ideas can be another cause of autistic-like communicative abnormalities...
  52. ncbi Different origin of auditory and phonological processing problems in children with language impairment: evidence from a twin study
    D V Bishop
    MRC Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, UK
    J Speech Lang Hear Res 42:155-68. 1999
    ..In general, CNRep was a better predictor of low language test scores than ART, but ART did make a significant independent contribution in accounting for variance in a test of grammatical understanding...
  53. ncbi Developmental dyslexia and specific language impairment: same or different?
    Dorothy V M Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University, Oxford, United Kingdom
    Psychol Bull 130:858-86. 2004
    ....
  54. ncbi Immature cortical responses to auditory stimuli in specific language impairment: evidence from ERPs to rapid tone sequences
    D V M Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
    Dev Sci 7:F11-8. 2004
    ..Age and ISI interacted with SLI status: ERPs of older participants with SLI differed from age-matched controls, and resembled ERPs of younger controls, consistent with a theory of immature auditory processing in SLI...
  55. ncbi Auditory temporal processing impairment: neither necessary nor sufficient for causing language impairment in children
    D V Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
    J Speech Lang Hear Res 42:1295-310. 1999
    ..We found no evidence that auditory deficits are a necessary or sufficient cause of language impairments...
  56. ncbi Distinctive patterns of memory function in subgroups of females with Turner syndrome: evidence for imprinted loci on the X-chromosome affecting neurodevelopment
    D V Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, UK
    Neuropsychologia 38:712-21. 2000
    ..We propose there may be one or more imprinted genes on the X chromosome that affect the development of lateralised brain regions important for memory function...
  57. ncbi Written language as a window into residual language deficits: a study of children with persistent and residual speech and language impairments
    Dorothy V M Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
    Cortex 39:215-37. 2003
    ..Those who did poorly on a nonword repetition test were especially likely to have poor written language. However, four children with pure speech difficulties produced age-appropriate written narratives...
  58. ncbi Frequency discrimination and literacy skills in children with mild to moderate sensorineural hearing loss
    L F Halliday
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3UD, United Kingdom
    J Speech Lang Hear Res 48:1187-203. 2005
    ..These results cast doubt on the assertion that a deficit in frequency discrimination necessarily leads to marked deficits in the development of language and literacy...
  59. ncbi Frequency discrimination deficits in people with specific language impairment: reliability, validity, and linguistic correlates
    G M McArthur
    University of Oxford, Oxford, England
    J Speech Lang Hear Res 47:527-41. 2004
    ..This subgroup did not differ from the remainder of the SLI sample in terms of age or nonverbal ability but was characterized by very poor reading that was associated with poor phonemic awareness...
  60. ncbi Is poor frequency modulation detection linked to literacy problems? A comparison of specific reading disability and mild to moderate sensorineural hearing loss
    L F Halliday
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3UD, UK
    Brain Lang 97:200-13. 2006
    ..However, the SNH group had no evidence of literacy impairments. This study thus shows that impairments in perceiving dynamically modulated auditory stimuli do not necessarily lead to difficulty in learning to read...
  61. ncbi Do children with autism 'switch off' to speech sounds? An investigation using event-related potentials
    Andrew J O Whitehouse
    Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University, UK
    Dev Sci 11:516-24. 2008
    ..However, they use top-down inhibition to attenuate responses to repeated streams of speech. This suggests that problems with speech processing in this population involve efferent pathways...
  62. ncbi Orthographic facilitation in oral vocabulary acquisition
    Jessie Ricketts
    University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    Q J Exp Psychol (Hove) 62:1948-66. 2009
    ..The degree of orthographic facilitation observed in posttests was related to children's reading levels, with more advanced readers showing more benefit from the presence of orthography...
  63. ncbi Heritable risk factors associated with language impairments
    J G Barry
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, UK
    Genes Brain Behav 6:66-76. 2007
    ..This suggests that non-word repetition serves as a marker of a family risk for language impairment. The paper concludes with a discussion of issues associated with ascertainment of specific language impairment (SLI)...
  64. ncbi Is discrimination training necessary to cause changes in the P2 auditory event-related brain potential to speech sounds?
    Kathleen A Sheehan
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, OX1 3UD, UK
    Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 25:547-53. 2005
    ..Our data challenge the view that increased P2 amplitude reflects enhanced perceptual discrimination by auditory cortex...
  65. ncbi Autism and specific language impairment: categorical distinction or continuum?
    Dorothy V M Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3UD, UK
    Novartis Found Symp 251:213-26; discussion 226-34, 281-97. 2003
    ..It is suggested that a more plausible interpretation is to regard structural and pragmatic language impairments as correlated but separable consequences of common underlying risk factors...
  66. ncbi Do video sounds interfere with auditory event-related potentials?
    G M McArthur
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, England
    Behav Res Methods Instrum Comput 35:329-33. 2003
    ..The impressive reliability of the P1 and N1 components allows for the use of video sound during EEG recording, and they may prove useful for assessing auditory processing in listeners who cannot tolerate long testing sessions...
  67. ncbi Move it! Visual feedback enhances validity of preferential looking as a measure of individual differences in vocabulary in toddlers
    Sarah E A Killing
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
    Dev Sci 11:525-30. 2008
    ....
  68. ncbi Qualitative aspects of developmental language impairment relate to language and literacy outcome in adulthood
    Andrew J O Whitehouse
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    Int J Lang Commun Disord 44:489-510. 2009
    ..Developmental language disorder is a heterogeneous diagnostic category. Little research has compared the long-term outcomes of children with different subtypes of language impairment...
  69. ncbi Adult psychosocial outcomes of children with specific language impairment, pragmatic language impairment and autism
    Andrew J O Whitehouse
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    Int J Lang Commun Disord 44:511-28. 2009
    ..It is not yet clear whether these outcomes vary between individuals with different subtypes of language impairment...
  70. ncbi Inferential processing and story recall in children with communication problems: a comparison of specific language impairment, pragmatic language impairment and high-functioning autism
    Courtenay Frazier Norbury
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    Int J Lang Commun Disord 37:227-51. 2002
    ..It is concluded that comprehension aids recall by enabling the listener to build a more stable mental representation of the story. The pragmatic deficits seen in autism compromise this process...
  71. ncbi Cerebral dominance for language function in adults with specific language impairment or autism
    Andrew J O Whitehouse
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford, UK
    Brain 131:3193-200. 2008
    ..3%). These findings suggest that atypical cerebral dominance is not implicated in all cases of poor language development (i.e. ASD and SLI-history groups), but may act as a biological marker of persisting SLI...
  72. ncbi A longitudinal investigation of early reading and language skills in children with poor reading comprehension
    Kate Nation
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
    J Child Psychol Psychiatry 51:1031-9. 2010
    ..We used a longitudinal design to examine earlier reading and language skills in children identified as poor comprehenders in mid-childhood...
  73. ncbi A comparison of language abilities in adolescents with Down syndrome and children with specific language impairment
    Glynis Laws
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    J Speech Lang Hear Res 46:1324-39. 2003
    ..Both groups were impaired on tests of grammatical morphology and phonological memory. There were some differences between the groups, but these could be attributed to other features of development of people with DS...
  74. ncbi Verbal deficits in Down's syndrome and specific language impairment: a comparison
    Glynis Laws
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    Int J Lang Commun Disord 39:423-51. 2004
    ..This description could also be applied to typically developing children diagnosed with specific language impairment...
  75. ncbi Auditory event-related potentials differ in dyslexics even when auditory psychophysical performance is normal
    Catherine J Stoodley
    Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, Oxford University, OX1 3PT, UK
    Brain Res 1121:190-9. 2006
    ..003) in the entire group. Thus, even among compensated dyslexics with above-average cognitive abilities and adequate performance on auditory psychophysical tasks, the MMN responses of some dyslexic adults were found to be abnormal...
  76. ncbi Duration of auditory sensory memory in parents of children with SLI: a mismatch negativity study
    Johanna G Barry
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
    Brain Lang 104:75-88. 2008
    ..We conclude by reviewing possible explanations for the observed group effects...
  77. ncbi Hemispheric specialization for processing auditory nonspeech stimuli
    Helen L Jamison
    Centre for Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging of the Brain, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    Cereb Cortex 16:1266-75. 2006
    ..These findings are consistent with the notion that the hemispheres are differentially specialized for processing auditory stimuli even in the absence of linguistic information...
  78. ncbi Genetic influences on language impairment and phonological short-term memory
    Dianne F Newbury
    Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, Oxford University, Roosevelt Drive, Headington, Oxford, OX3 7BN, UK
    Trends Cogn Sci 9:528-34. 2005
    ..Identifying those cognitive deficits that work best as indices of heritable phenotypes will help us to uncover the aetiology of developmental disorders...
  79. ncbi The broader language phenotype of autism: a comparison with specific language impairment
    Andrew J O Whitehouse
    University of Oxford, UK
    J Child Psychol Psychiatry 48:822-30. 2007
    ..Whether these behaviours are indicative of a common underlying genetic cause or a superficial similarity is unclear...
  80. ncbi Further defining the language impairment of autism: is there a specific language impairment subtype?
    Andrew J O Whitehouse
    Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford Study of Children s Communication Impairments, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3UD, United Kingdom
    J Commun Disord 41:319-36. 2008
    ..Readers will then be taken through a detailed comparison of the language and memory abilities of group of children with each diagnosis. A theoretical model that seeks to explain the relation between these two disorders will be discussed...
  81. ncbi Narrative skills of children with communication impairments
    Courtenay Frazier Norbury
    Oxford Study of Children s Communication Impairments, UK
    Int J Lang Commun Disord 38:287-313. 2003
    ..Comparing these two groups of children with children who exhibit pragmatic language impairment without autism may help to clarify these issues...
  82. ncbi Profile and aetiology of children diagnosed with auditory processing disorder (APD)
    Piers Dawes
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, Oxford OX1 3UD, United Kingdom
    Int J Pediatr Otorhinolaryngol 72:483-9. 2008
    ..This study sought to describe presenting features and investigate aetiological factors for children diagnosed with APD compared to those for whom APD was excluded...
  83. ncbi Outcomes of early language delay: II. Etiology of transient and persistent language difficulties
    Dorothy V M Bishop
    University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    J Speech Lang Hear Res 46:561-75. 2003
    ..41 (SE = .127) was found. Early language delay appears largely environmental in origin for 2-year-olds whose parents do not go on to seek professional help...
  84. ncbi CMIP and ATP2C2 modulate phonological short-term memory in language impairment
    Dianne F Newbury
    Wellcome Trust Centre for Human Genetics, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
    Am J Hum Genet 85:264-72. 2009
    ..This work therefore implicates CMIP and ATP2C2 in the etiology of SLI and provides molecular evidence for the importance of phonological short-term memory in language acquisition...
  85. ncbi Using nonword repetition to distinguish genetic and environmental influences on early literacy development: a study of 6-year-old twins
    Dorothy V M Bishop
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, South Parks Road, OX1 3UD, United Kingdom
    Am J Med Genet B Neuropsychiatr Genet 129:94-6. 2004
    ..79 and the variance due to shared environment was zero. Future studies of genetics of reading development should treat those with poor nonword repetition skills as a separate subgroup...
  86. ncbi Phonological categorization of vowels: a mismatch negativity study
    Penelope R Hill
    Department of Experimental Psychology, Oxford University, South Parks Road, Oxford, OX1 3UD, UK
    Neuroreport 15:2195-9. 2004
    ..However, the presence of a late mismatch negativity (350 ms after stimulus onset) indicated that phonological categorization had taken place by this time...
  87. ncbi Neurocognitive outcomes of individuals with a sex chromosome trisomy: XXX, XYY, or XXY: a systematic review
    Victoria Leggett
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, UK
    Dev Med Child Neurol 52:119-29. 2010
    ..To review systematically the neurodevelopmental characteristics of individuals with sex chromosome trisomies (SCTs)...
  88. ncbi Mismatch response to polysyllabic nonwords: a neurophysiological signature of language learning capacity
    Johanna G Barry
    Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford, Oxford, United Kingdom
    PLoS ONE 4:e6270. 2009
    ..In the present study, we used event-related potentials to assess the contributions from these three factors to explaining individual variation in nonword repetition ability...
  89. ncbi Poor frequency discrimination is related to oral language disorder in children: a psychoacoustic study
    Elise D Mengler
    School of Psychology, The University of Western Australia, Crawley, Western Australia 6009, Australia
    Dyslexia 11:155-73. 2005
    ..Frequency discrimination thresholds were not related to reading ability in either group. This study provides evidence for a basic auditory deficit in children with SLI, regardless of their reading ability...
  90. ncbi Genetic influences in different aspects of language development: the etiology of language skills in 4.5-year-old twins
    Yulia Kovas
    Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry, Institute of Psychiatry, London England
    Child Dev 76:632-51. 2005
    ..Genetic and environmental influences on language ability and disability are quantitatively and qualitatively similar for males and females...
  91. ncbi Genetic and environmental influence on language impairment in 4-year-old same-sex and opposite-sex twins
    Essi Viding
    Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, London, UK
    J Child Psychol Psychiatry 45:315-25. 2004
    ..We investigated the aetiology of language impairment in 579 four-year-old twins with low language performance and their co-twins, members of 160 MZ twin pairs, 131 same-sex DZ pairs and 102 opposite-sex DZ pairs...
  92. ncbi Common aetiology for diverse language skills in 4 1/2-year-old twins
    Marianna E Hayiou-Thomas
    Department of Psychology, University of York, Heslington
    J Child Lang 33:339-68. 2006
    ..64 and shared environment correlation of 1.00. We conclude that to a large extent, the same genetic and environmental factors underlie the development of individual differences in a wide range of linguistic skills...
  93. ncbi Effect of attentional state on frequency discrimination: a comparison of children with ADHD on and off medication
    Paul A Sutcliffe
    School of Health and Related Research, University of Sheffield, Regent Court, 30 Regent Street, Sheffield S1 4DA, United Kingdom
    J Speech Lang Hear Res 49:1072-84. 2006
    ..The study has implications for design and interpretation of studies investigating links between auditory discrimination and difficulties in language and literacy...
  94. ncbi Disproportionate language impairment in children using cochlear implants
    Kelvin Hawker
    Nottingham Cochlear Implant Programme, Ropewalk House, Nottingham, NG1 6HA
    Ear Hear 29:467-71. 2008
    ..To examine the nature of previously unexplained, severe language impairments in some children using a cochlear implant (CI)...
  95. ncbi Genetic and environmental mediation of the relationship between language and nonverbal impairment in 4-year-old twins
    Essi Viding
    Social Genetic and Developmental Psychiatry Centre, Institute of Psychiatry, London, England
    J Speech Lang Hear Res 46:1271-82. 2003
    ..This finding held even when we excluded those children with language impairment whose nonverbal score indicated general cognitive delay. These results point to a general genetic factor that includes both language and nonverbal problems...
  96. ncbi Simulating SLI: general cognitive processing stressors can produce a specific linguistic profile
    Marianna E Hayiou-Thomas
    Institute of Psychiatry, London, United Kingdom
    J Speech Lang Hear Res 47:1347-62. 2004
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  97. ncbi The structure of language abilities at 4 years: a twin study
    Essi Colledge
    Social, Genetic, and Developmental Psychiatry Research Center, Institute of Psychiatry, London, England
    Dev Psychol 38:749-57. 2002
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  98. ncbi Outcomes of early language delay: I. Predicting persistent and transient language difficulties at 3 and 4 years
    Philip S Dale
    Communication Sciences and Disorders, University of Missouri Columbia, 65211, USA
    J Speech Lang Hear Res 46:544-60. 2003
    ..Furthermore, measures of parental education and the child's history of ear infections failed to substantially improve the prediction...
  99. ncbi Putting language genes in perspective
    Dorothy V M Bishop
    Trends Genet 18:57-9. 2002