{"id":222848,"date":"2025-10-03T03:23:35","date_gmt":"2025-10-03T08:23:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/genetic-and-behavioral-links-found-between-musical-rhythm-perception-and-developmental-language-disorders"},"modified":"2025-10-03T03:23:35","modified_gmt":"2025-10-03T08:23:35","slug":"genetic-and-behavioral-links-found-between-musical-rhythm-perception-and-developmental-language-disorders","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/10\/genetic-and-behavioral-links-found-between-musical-rhythm-perception-and-developmental-language-disorders","title":{"rendered":"Genetic and behavioral links found between musical rhythm perception and developmental language disorders"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/genetic-and-behavioral-links-found-between-musical-rhythm-perception-and-developmental-language-disorders.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a paper <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41467-025-60867-2\" target=\"_blank\">published<\/a> in <i>Nature Communications<\/i>, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center\u2019s Department of Otolaryngology\u2013Head and Neck Surgery leveraged two main studies\u2014one focused on behavior and one focused on genetics\u2014to highlight the correlation between participants\u2019 musical rhythm abilities and developmental speech-language disorders.<\/p>\n<p>These disorders include <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/developmental+language+disorder\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">developmental language disorder<\/a>, dyslexia and stuttering, among others.<\/p>\n<p>Evidence showed that deficiency in musical <a href=\"https:\/\/medicalxpress.com\/tags\/rhythm\/\" rel=\"tag\" class=\"\">rhythm<\/a> perception is a \u201cmodest but consistent risk factor for developmental speech, language and reading disorders,\u201d according to the study\u2019s lead author, Srishti Nayak, Ph.D., assistant professor of Otolaryngology-Head and Neck Surgery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a paper published in Nature Communications, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center\u2019s Department of Otolaryngology\u2013Head and Neck Surgery leveraged two main studies\u2014one focused on behavior and one focused on genetics\u2014to highlight the correlation between participants\u2019 musical rhythm abilities and developmental speech-language disorders. These disorders include developmental language disorder, dyslexia and stuttering, among others. Evidence [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-222848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222848","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=222848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}