Alternate reading strategies and variable asymmetry of the planum temporale in adult resilient readers.

ABSTRACT: Resilient readers are characterized by impaired phonological processing despite skilled text comprehension. We investigated orthographic and semantic processing in resilient readers to examine mechanisms of compensation for poor phonological decoding. Performance on phonological (phoneme deletion, pseudoword reading), orthographic (orthographic choice, orthographic analogy), and semantic (semantic priming, homograph resolution) tasks was compared between resilient, poor and proficient readers. Asymmetry of the planum temporale was investigated in order to determine whether atypical readers showed unusual morphology in this language-relevant region. Resilient readers showed deficits on phonological tasks similar to those shown by poor readers. We obtained no evidence that resilient readers

SUBMITTER: Welcome SE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4617338 | biostudies-literature | 2010 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature