UNASSIGNED: @entity245 is commonly thought to arise from specific @entity73 . However, recent evidence is consistent with the possibility that @entity73 arise as symptoms of an underlying dysfunction of procedural learning. The nature of the link between impaired procedural @entity4207 is unresolved. Motivated by the observation that speech processing involves the acquisition of procedural category knowledge, the present study investigates the possibility that procedural @entity4207 may affect phonological processing by interfering with the typical course of phonetic category learning. The present study tests this hypothesis while controlling for linguistic experience and possible speech-specific deficits by comparing auditory category learning across artificial, nonlinguistic sounds among dyslexic adults and matched controls in a specialized first- @entity1 shooter videogame that has been shown to engage procedural learning. Nonspeech auditory category learning was assessed online via within-game measures and also with a post-training task involving overt categorization of familiar and novel sound exemplars. Each measure reveals that dyslexic @entity1 do not acquire procedural category knowledge as effectively as age- and @entity73 matched controls. This difference cannot be explained by differences in perceptual acuity for the sounds. Moreover, poor nonspeech category learning is associated with slower phonological processing. Whereas phonological @entity73 have been emphasized as the cause of @entity5545 , the current results suggest that @entity4207 , general in nature and not specific to speech signals, could contribute to @entity51 in @entity5545 with subsequent negative effects on language acquisition and reading. Implications for the neuro-cognitive mechanisms of @entity245 are discussed.

Incidental learning of sound categories is impaired in XXXX .

@entity1 :: ('9606', 'Species') :: ['participants', 'person'] @entity73 :: ('MESH:D003072', 'Disease') :: ['processing impairments', 'cognitive-ability', 'phonological impairments'] @entity245 :: ('MESH:D002658', 'Disease') :: ['developmental dyslexia', 'Developmental dyslexia'] @entity51 :: ('MESH:D009461', 'Disease') :: ['phonological deficits'] @entity4207 :: ('MESH:D007859', 'Disease') :: ['impaired auditory category learning', 'learning and phonological dysfunction', 'learning impairment'] @entity5545 :: ('MESH:D004410', 'Disease') :: ['dyslexia']
@entity245 :: (MESH:D002658,Disease) :: ['developmental dyslexia']
