Involvement of the right hemisphere in reading comprehension: a DTI study.

ABSTRACT: The Simple View of reading emphasizes the critical role of two factors in normal reading skills: word recognition and reading comprehension. The current study aims to identify the anatomical support for aspects of reading performance that fall within these two components. Fractional anisotropy (FA) values were obtained from diffusion tensor images in twenty-one typical adolescents and young adults using the tract based spatial statistics (TBSS) method. We focused on the arcuate fasciculus (AF) and inferior longitudinal fasciculus (ILF) as fiber tracts that connect regions already implicated in the distributed cortical network for reading. Our results demonstrate dissociation between word-level and narrative-level reading skills: the FA values for both left and right ILF were correlated wit

SUBMITTER: Horowitz-Kraus T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4164572 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature