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Sex differences in neurophysiological activation patterns during phonological input processing: an influencing factor for normative data

Annelies Aerts (UGent) , Pieter van Mierlo (UGent) , Robert Hartsuiker (UGent) , Patrick Santens (UGent) and Miet De Letter (UGent)
(2015) ARCHIVES OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR. 44(8). p.2207-2218
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In the context of neurophysiological normative data, it has been established before that aging has a significant impact on neurophysiological correlates of auditory phonological input processes, such as phoneme discrimination (PD) and word recognition (WR). Besides age, sex is another demographic factor that influences several language processes. We aimed to disentangle whether sex has a similar effect on PD and WR. Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded in 20 men and 24 women. During PD, three phonemic contrasts (place and manner of articulation and voicing) were compared using the attentive P300 and pre-attentive Mismatch Negativity. To investigate WR, real words were contrasted with pseudowords in a pre-attentive oddball task. Women demonstrated a larger sensitivity to spectrotemporal differences, as evidenced by larger P300 responses to the place of articulation (PoA) contrast and larger P300 and MMN responses than men in PoA-based PD. Men did not display such sensitivity. Attention played an important role, considering that women needed more attentional resources to differentiate between PoA and the other phonemic contrasts. During WR, pseudowords evoked larger amplitudes already 100 msec post-stimulus independent of sex. However, women had decreased P200 latencies, but longer N400 latencies in response to pseudowords, whereby men showed increased N400 latencies compared to women in response to real words. The current results demonstrate significant sex-related influences on phonological input processes. Therefore, existing neurophysiological normative data for age should be complemented for the factor sex.
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N400 pseudoword effect, phonology, sex, P300, EVENT-RELATED POTENTIALS, gender, Mismatch Negativity (MMN), SPEECH, CATEGORICAL PERCEPTION, GENDER-DIFFERENCES, EVOKED-POTENTIALS, WORD RECOGNITION, FUNCTIONAL MRI, HUMAN BRAIN, LANGUAGE, MISMATCH NEGATIVITY

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Aerts, Annelies, et al. “Sex Differences in Neurophysiological Activation Patterns during Phonological Input Processing: An Influencing Factor for Normative Data.” ARCHIVES OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, vol. 44, no. 8, 2015, pp. 2207–18, doi:10.1007/s10508-015-0560-y.
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Aerts, A., van Mierlo, P., Hartsuiker, R., Santens, P., & De Letter, M. (2015). Sex differences in neurophysiological activation patterns during phonological input processing: an influencing factor for normative data. ARCHIVES OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, 44(8), 2207–2218. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-015-0560-y
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Aerts, Annelies, Pieter van Mierlo, Robert Hartsuiker, Patrick Santens, and Miet De Letter. 2015. “Sex Differences in Neurophysiological Activation Patterns during Phonological Input Processing: An Influencing Factor for Normative Data.” ARCHIVES OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR 44 (8): 2207–18. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-015-0560-y.
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Aerts, Annelies, Pieter van Mierlo, Robert Hartsuiker, Patrick Santens, and Miet De Letter. 2015. “Sex Differences in Neurophysiological Activation Patterns during Phonological Input Processing: An Influencing Factor for Normative Data.” ARCHIVES OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR 44 (8): 2207–2218. doi:10.1007/s10508-015-0560-y.
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Aerts A, van Mierlo P, Hartsuiker R, Santens P, De Letter M. Sex differences in neurophysiological activation patterns during phonological input processing: an influencing factor for normative data. ARCHIVES OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR. 2015;44(8):2207–18.
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A. Aerts, P. van Mierlo, R. Hartsuiker, P. Santens, and M. De Letter, “Sex differences in neurophysiological activation patterns during phonological input processing: an influencing factor for normative data,” ARCHIVES OF SEXUAL BEHAVIOR, vol. 44, no. 8, pp. 2207–2218, 2015.
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  language     = {{eng}},
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  title        = {{Sex differences in neurophysiological activation patterns during phonological input processing: an influencing factor for normative data}},
  url          = {{http://doi.org/10.1007/s10508-015-0560-y}},
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