Background
There have been a few reports about the effects of chronic stroke on auditory temporal
processing abilities and no reports regarding the effects of brain damage lateralization
on these abilities. Our study was performed on 2 groups of chronic stroke patients
to compare the effects of hemispheric lateralization of brain damage and of age on
auditory temporal processing.
Methods
Seventy persons with normal hearing, including 25 normal controls, 25 stroke patients
with damage to the right brain, and 20 stroke patients with damage to the left brain,
without aphasia and with an age range of 31-71 years were studied. A gap-in-noise
(GIN) test and a duration pattern test (DPT) were conducted for each participant.
Results
Significant differences were found between the 3 groups for GIN threshold, overall
GIN percent score, and DPT percent score in both ears (P ≤ .001). For all stroke patients, performance in both GIN and DPT was poorer in the
ear contralateral to the damaged hemisphere, which was significant in DPT and in 2
measures of GIN (P ≤ .046). Advanced age had a negative relationship with temporal processing abilities
for all 3 groups.
Conclusions
In cases of confirmed left- or right-side stroke involving auditory cerebrum damage,
poorer auditory temporal processing is associated with the ear contralateral to the
damaged cerebral hemisphere. Replication of our results and the use of GIN and DPT
tests for the early diagnosis of auditory processing deficits and for monitoring the
effects of aural rehabilitation interventions are recommended.
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Article info
Publication history
Published online: March 22, 2016
Accepted:
February 20,
2016
Received in revised form:
February 1,
2016
Received:
December 9,
2015
Footnotes
This paper is the result of a research project that has been approved by Iran University of Medical Sciences and the University of Social Welfare and Rehabilitation Sciences, grant number 93-03-32-25037.
Identification
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jstrokecerebrovasdis.2016.02.030
Copyright
© 2016 National Stroke Association. Published by Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.
