The behavioral and neurobiological relationships between executive function and reading: A review and preliminary findings.

ABSTRACT: Despite decades of prior research, the mechanisms for how skilled reading develops remain elusive. Numerous studies have identified word recognition and oral language ability as key components to explain later reading comprehension performance. However, these components alone do not fully explain differences in reading achievement. There is ongoing work exploring other candidate processes important for reading, such as the domain-general cognitive ability of executive function (EF). Here, we summarize our work on the behavioral and neurobiological connections between EF and reading and present preliminary neuroimaging findings from ongoing work. Together, these studies suggest 1) that EF plays a supportive and perhaps indirect role in reading achievement and 2) that EF-related brain region

SUBMITTER: Burgess AN 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11087004 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature