Data Sheet 1_A question of time?—Relations between temporal auditory processing abilities

German school children from grades 1 to 4 (N = 277) participated in a cross-sectional study. The data includes results from tablet-based tasks measuring rapid auditory processing, rhythmic auditory processing, phonological processing, and reading and spelling tests. The dataset was authored by Sindy Weise and last updated on 2026-05-08.

Use Cases

• Test mediation models between auditory processing and literacy based on the described structural equation modeling framework.
• Analyze differences in cognitive predictors between early (grades 1-2) and advanced (grades 3-4) literacy development stages.
• Investigate the relationship between rhythmic auditory processing and alphabetic literacy skills mentioned in the description.
• Examine the role of rapid auditory processing in orthographic literacy for more experienced readers.

Strengths

• Includes data from 277 participants, providing a substantial sample for analysis.
• Measures multiple constructs: rapid auditory processing, rhythmic auditory processing, phonological processing, and literacy skills.
• Data is structured for multi-group analysis comparing two developmental stages (early vs. advanced literacy).
• Released under a permissive CC-BY-4.0 license for reuse.

Limitations

• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• The dataset is small in scale at 81.2 KB, indicating limited scope.
• Data may reflect geographic bias inherent to the sample of German school children.

Provenance

Source

figshare, authored by Sindy Weise.

Collection Method

Data collected via tablet-based tasks and standardized tests in a cross-sectional study.

Freshness

Last updated 2026-05-08 13:15:05; freshness should be verified.

Geography

Germany