R Ceponiene

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Affiliation: University of California
Country: USA

Publications

  1. ncbi Children's auditory event-related potentials index sound complexity and "speechness"
    R Ceponiene
    Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Dept. of Psychology, Meritullinkatu 1B, P. O. Box 13, University of Helsinki, 000 14 Helsinki, Finland
    Int J Neurosci 109:245-60. 2001
  2. ncbi Verbal and nonverbal semantic processing in children with developmental language impairment
    Alycia Cummings
    San Diego State University University of California, San Diego Joint Doctoral Program in Language and Communicative Disorders, San Diego, CA, USA
    Neuropsychologia 48:77-85. 2010
  3. ncbi Spectral vs. temporal auditory processing in specific language impairment: a developmental ERP study
    R Ceponiene
    Project in Neural and Cognitive Development, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 0113, United States
    Brain Lang 110:107-20. 2009
  4. ncbi Modality-specificity of sensory aging in vision and audition: evidence from event-related potentials
    R Ceponiene
    Center for Research and Language, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 0113, USA
    Brain Res 1215:53-68. 2008
  5. ncbi A developmental ERP study of verbal and non-verbal semantic processing
    Alycia Cummings
    Project in Cognitive and Neural Development, University of California, San Diego, USA
    Brain Res 1208:137-49. 2008
  6. ncbi Event-related potentials associated with sound discrimination versus novelty detection in children
    R Ceponiene
    Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
    Psychophysiology 41:130-41. 2004
  7. ncbi ERPs differentiate syllable and nonphonetic sound processing in children and adults
    R Ceponiene
    Center for Research in Language, University of California, San Diego, California 92093 0113, USA
    Psychophysiology 42:391-406. 2005
  8. ncbi Speech-sound-selective auditory impairment in children with autism: they can perceive but do not attend
    R Ceponiene
    Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, P O Box 13, University of Helsinki, FIN 00014 Helsinki, Finland
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:5567-72. 2003
  9. ncbi Maturation of cortical sound processing as indexed by event-related potentials
    Rita Ceponiene
    Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
    Clin Neurophysiol 113:870-82. 2002
  10. ncbi Event-related potentials reflect spectral differences in speech and non-speech stimuli in children and adults
    R Ceponiene
    Center for Research in Language, Project in Neural and Cognitive Development, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 0113, USA
    Clin Neurophysiol 119:1560-77. 2008

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Publications36

  1. ncbi Children's auditory event-related potentials index sound complexity and "speechness"
    R Ceponiene
    Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Dept. of Psychology, Meritullinkatu 1B, P. O. Box 13, University of Helsinki, 000 14 Helsinki, Finland
    Int J Neurosci 109:245-60. 2001
    ..Some stimulus-complexity effects observed for N250 in children corresponded to those observed for the N1 in adults, whereas the N450 peak exhibited behaviour resembling that of the adult ERP components subsequent to the N1 wave...
  2. ncbi Verbal and nonverbal semantic processing in children with developmental language impairment
    Alycia Cummings
    San Diego State University University of California, San Diego Joint Doctoral Program in Language and Communicative Disorders, San Diego, CA, USA
    Neuropsychologia 48:77-85. 2010
    ....
  3. ncbi Spectral vs. temporal auditory processing in specific language impairment: a developmental ERP study
    R Ceponiene
    Project in Neural and Cognitive Development, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 0113, United States
    Brain Lang 110:107-20. 2009
    ..Rather, the results suggest a deficit in acoustic feature integration at higher levels of auditory sensory processing. The observed maturational trajectory suggests a non-linear developmental deviance rather than simple delay...
  4. ncbi Modality-specificity of sensory aging in vision and audition: evidence from event-related potentials
    R Ceponiene
    Center for Research and Language, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 0113, USA
    Brain Res 1215:53-68. 2008
    ..However, when the whole auditory modality is unattended, thalamo-cortical gating deficits may not manifest in the elderly. In contrast, ERP indices of longer-latency, stimulus-level inhibitory modulation appear to diminish with age...
  5. ncbi A developmental ERP study of verbal and non-verbal semantic processing
    Alycia Cummings
    Project in Cognitive and Neural Development, University of California, San Diego, USA
    Brain Res 1208:137-49. 2008
    ..Thus, while the semantic processing of single words is well established by 7 years of age, the processing of environmental sounds continues to improve throughout development...
  6. ncbi Event-related potentials associated with sound discrimination versus novelty detection in children
    R Ceponiene
    Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
    Psychophysiology 41:130-41. 2004
    ..It might reflect cognitive, albeit preattentive, processing of sound change. The Nc1 appears to reflect cognitive attentive processing of salient stimuli and the Nc2 might reflect reorienting after distraction...
  7. ncbi ERPs differentiate syllable and nonphonetic sound processing in children and adults
    R Ceponiene
    Center for Research in Language, University of California, San Diego, California 92093 0113, USA
    Psychophysiology 42:391-406. 2005
    ....
  8. ncbi Speech-sound-selective auditory impairment in children with autism: they can perceive but do not attend
    R Ceponiene
    Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, P O Box 13, University of Helsinki, FIN 00014 Helsinki, Finland
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:5567-72. 2003
    ..These results demonstrate that, first, auditory orienting deficits in autism cannot be explained by sensory deficits and, second, that orienting deficit in autism might be speech-sound specific...
  9. ncbi Maturation of cortical sound processing as indexed by event-related potentials
    Rita Ceponiene
    Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
    Clin Neurophysiol 113:870-82. 2002
    ..The present study utilized high-resolution electroencephalography to study the maturation of auditory ERPs from age 4 to adulthood and to compare the sources of the N1 and the N2 peaks in 9-year-old children and adults...
  10. ncbi Event-related potentials reflect spectral differences in speech and non-speech stimuli in children and adults
    R Ceponiene
    Center for Research in Language, Project in Neural and Cognitive Development, University of California, San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093 0113, USA
    Clin Neurophysiol 119:1560-77. 2008
    ..To clarify functional significance of auditory ERPs, we examined ERP indices of spectral differences in speech and non-speech sounds...
  11. ncbi Auditory sensory impairment in children with oral clefts as indexed by auditory event-related potentials
    Rita Ceponiene
    Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
    J Craniofac Surg 13:554-66; discussion 567. 2002
    ..Furthermore, it appears that the ASM impairment and oral clefting are linked in a comorbid fashion...
  12. ncbi Event-related potential indices of auditory vowel processing in 3-year-old children
    R Ceponiene
    Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology and Helsinki Brain Research Unit, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
    Clin Neurophysiol 114:652-61. 2003
    ..To determine the ERP characteristics and ERP indices of central speech sound encoding and discrimination in young children...
  13. ncbi Dysfunction of the auditory cortex persists in infants with certain cleft types
    R Ceponiene
    Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland
    Dev Med Child Neurol 42:258-65. 2000
    ..This pattern parallels known behavioural differences between children with these cleft types. Brain responses to rare sounds, in contrast, had no differentiative power with respect to the cleft type...
  14. ncbi Cortical auditory dysfunction in children with oral clefts: relation with cleft type
    R Ceponiene
    Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland
    Clin Neurophysiol 110:1921-6. 1999
    ..We investigated persistence of auditory short-term memory (STM) that is implicitly involved in language-specific perception in children with clefts, grouped using fine-graded cleft classification...
  15. ncbi Brain dysfunction in neonates with cleft palate revealed by the mismatch negativity
    M Cheour
    Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland
    Clin Neurophysiol 110:324-8. 1999
    ..The present study aimed at investigating whether the MMN is attenuated already in newborns with cleft palate compared with healthy controls...
  16. ncbi Auditory semantic networks for words and natural sounds
    A Cummings
    Project in Cognitive and Neural Development, University of California, San Diego, USA
    Brain Res 1115:92-107. 2006
    ....
  17. ncbi Auditory event-related potential indices of increased distractibility in children with major depression
    T Lepistö
    Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, P O Box 9, FIN 00014 Helsinki, Finland and Helsinki Brain Research Center, Helsinki, Finland
    Clin Neurophysiol 115:620-7. 2004
    ..Using auditory event-related potentials (ERPs), we aimed to determine whether these problems could be caused by a dysfunction in auditory sensory memory, attentional orienting, or both...
  18. ncbi Maturation of mismatch negativity in infants
    M Cheour
    Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland
    Int J Psychophysiol 29:217-26. 1998
    ..The mean MMN latency, however, decreased significantly with age, although in 3-month-old infants it was not much longer than in a previous study conducted in adults with the same stimuli...
  19. ncbi Event-related potential correlates of sound duration: similar pattern from birth to adulthood
    E Kushnerenko
    Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, P.O. Box 13, 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
    Neuroreport 12:3777-81. 2001
    ..The results suggest that sound duration is processed already at birth in a similar way as in adulthood...
  20. ncbi Central auditory processing of durational changes in complex speech patterns by newborns: an event-related brain potential study
    E Kushnerenko
    Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, P O Box 13, 00014 University of Helsinki, Finland
    Dev Neuropsychol 19:83-97. 2001
    ..The first negative wave peaked at about 150 msec and the second at about 350 msec after the change onset. At least one negative deflection, which was interpreted as evidence for stimulus change-detection, was observed in every infant...
  21. ncbi Neural correlates of verbal and nonverbal semantic integration in children with autism spectrum disorders
    Joseph P McCleery
    University of California, San Diego, Department of Psychology, USA
    J Child Psychol Psychiatry 51:277-86. 2010
    ..The focus of the current study was to investigate verbal and meaningful nonverbal semantic processing in high-functioning children with autism (mean age = 5.8 years) using event-related potentials (ERPs)...
  22. ncbi Involuntary attention in children as a function of sound source location: evidence from event-related potentials
    A Shestakova
    Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, P O Box 13, FIN 00014 University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
    Clin Neurophysiol 113:162-8. 2002
    ..The present study addressed the question of whether location of the auditory stimulation source affects an involuntary attention triggering to the deviant sounds in a passive oddball paradigm in 8-10-year-old children...
  23. ncbi Children's performance on pseudoword repetition depends on auditory trace quality: evidence from event-related potentials
    R Ceponiene
    Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland
    Dev Psychol 35:709-20. 1999
    ..Thus, the accuracy of auditory-sensory processing seems to affect phonological short-term representations in school-age children and therefore may play a role in vocabulary development...
  24. ncbi Event-related potentials associated with second language learning in children
    Anna Shestakova
    Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, P O Box 9, University of Helsinki, Helsinki FIN 00014, Finland
    Clin Neurophysiol 114:1507-12. 2003
    ..In this study, we investigated learning-related changes in auditory event-related potentials (ERPs) of Finnish-speaking 3-6-year-old children caused by learning French language...
  25. ncbi Event-related potential features indexing central auditory discrimination by newborns
    Rita Ceponiene
    Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, P O Box 13, University of Helsinki, 00014 Helsinki, Finland
    Brain Res Cogn Brain Res 13:101-13. 2002
    ..The present findings support a change-detection nature of MMN in neonates; however, sound duration-related obligatory effects need to be taken into account in infant MMN studies...
  26. ncbi Plastic neural changes and reading improvement caused by audiovisual training in reading-impaired children
    T Kujala
    Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, P O Box 13, University of Helsinki, FIN 00014 Helsinki, Finland
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 98:10509-14. 2001
    ..Moreover, the fact that the present training effects were obtained by using a program including no linguistic material indicates that dyslexia is at least partly based on a general auditory perceptual deficit...
  27. ncbi Sound complexity and 'speechness' effects on pre-attentive auditory discrimination in children
    Rita Ceponiene
    Cognitive Brain Research Unit, Department of Psychology, Meritullinkatu 1B, P O Box 13, 00014 University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
    Int J Psychophysiol 43:199-211. 2002
    ..The discrimination of the sound duration appears to differ from that of the sound frequency in nature and, consequently, in the neural substrates...
  28. ncbi Maturation of the auditory event-related potentials during the first year of life
    Elena Kushnerenko
    Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Finland
    Neuroreport 13:47-51. 2002
    ....
  29. ncbi Maturation of the auditory change detection response in infants: a longitudinal ERP study
    Elena Kushnerenko
    Department of Psychology, University of Helsinki, Helsinki, Finland
    Neuroreport 13:1843-8. 2002
    ....
  30. ncbi Electric brain responses obtained from newborn infants to changes in duration in complex harmonic tones
    Marie Cheour
    Department of Psychology, University of Miami, P O Box 248185, Coral Gables, FL 33124, USA
    Dev Neuropsychol 22:471-9. 2002
    ..This result is consistent with previous findings. The MMN amplitude, however, was surprisingly large in infants compared to older children...
  31. ncbi A case study of amnion rupture sequence with acalvaria, blindness, and clefting: clinical and psychological profiles
    Jyri Hukki
    Cleft Palate and Craniofacial Center, Department of Plastic Surgery, Helsinki University Hospital, Helsinki, Finland
    J Craniofac Surg 15:185-91. 2004
    ..The already completed and possible future therapeutic strategies are discussed...
  32. ncbi Deficient auditory processing in children with Asperger Syndrome, as indexed by event-related potentials
    Eira Jansson-Verkasalo
    Department of Finnish, Saami and Logopedics, University of Oulu, Oulu, Finland
    Neurosci Lett 338:197-200. 2003
    ..These results indicate that auditory sensory processing is deficient in children with AS, and that these deficits might be implicated in the perceptual problems encountered by children with AS...
  33. ncbi Deficient speech-sound processing, as shown by the electrophysiologic brain mismatch negativity response, and naming ability in prematurely born children
    Eira Jansson-Verkasalo
    Department of Finnish, Saami and Logopedics, University of Oulu, FIN 90029 OYS, Finland
    Neurosci Lett 348:5-8. 2003
    ..Therefore, difficulties in auditory discrimination seem to be implicated in language difficulties encountered in VLBW prematurely born children...
  34. ncbi Mismatch negativity shows that 3-6-year-old children can learn to discriminate non-native speech sounds within two months
    Marie Cheour
    Language and the Developing Brain Laboratory, Centre for Cognitive Neuroscience, University of Turku, Turku, Finland
    Neurosci Lett 325:187-90. 2002
    ..Accordingly, these data herald the vast potential MMN may entail for studying language learning, especially in situations where behavioral responses cannot be readily elicited...
  35. ncbi Newborn infants can organize the auditory world
    Istvan Winkler
    Institute for Psychology, Hungarian Academy of Sciences, H 1394 Budapest, Hungary
    Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 100:11812-5. 2003
    ..Its presence in newborn infants shows that the basic abilities required for the development of conceptual objects are available already at the time of birth...
  36. ncbi Atypical auditory event-related potentials in preterm infants during the first year of life: a possible sign of cognitive dysfunction?
    Vineta Fellman
    Hospital for Children and Adolescents, Helsinki University Central Hospital, P O Box 281, 00029 Helsinki, Finland
    Pediatr Res 56:291-7. 2004
    ..The broad difference positivity at 1 y of age may indicate atypical cortical auditory processing. Whether cognitive dysfunction can be predicted by these findings needs to be assessed in a study with extended follow-up...