Cortical latency predicts reading fluency from late childhood to early adolescence.

ABSTRACT: Progressive development of reading comprehension fluency from late childhood to early adolescence is remarkably linked to changes in the temporal dynamics of visual word recognition. EEG/ERP based measures of how an individual participant's cortical timing for visual word recognition change over development are limited by low reliability. We present a novel approach to this challenge that individually models cortical latency to visual word forms by extracting phase values from Steady-State Visual Evoked Potentials (SSVEPs) for each participant. The resulting precise and reliable timing information for neural signatures underlying visual word form processes help account for the development of fluent reading comprehension. Typically developing readers (n=68), aged 8-15 years, viewed streams

SUBMITTER: Wang F 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12715427 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature