Does the late positive component reflect successful reading acquisition? A longitudinal ERP study.

ABSTRACT: Developmental dyslexia is a reading disorder that is associated with deficits in phonological processing, where the exact neural basis for those processing deficits remains unclear. In particular, disagreement exists whether degraded phonological representations or an impaired access to the phonological representations causes these deficits. To investigate this question and to trace changes in neurophysiology during the process of reading acquisition, we designed a longitudinal study with event related potentials (ERPs) in children between kindergarten and second grade. We used an explicit word processing task to elicit the late positive component (LPC), which has been shown to reflect phonological processing. A brain-wide analysis of the LPC with an electrode-wise application of mixed eff

SUBMITTER: Wachinger C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5683196 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature