Prereader to beginning reader: changes induced by reading acquisition in print and speech brain networks.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Literacy acquisition is a demanding process that induces significant changes in the brain, especially in the spoken and written language networks. Nevertheless, large-scale paediatric fMRI studies are still limited.

Methods

We analyzed fMRI data to show how individual differences in reading performance correlate with brain activation for speech and print in 111 children attending kindergarten or first grade and examined group differences between a matched subset of emergent-readers and prereaders.

Results

Across the entire cohort, individual differences analysis revealed that reading skill was positively correlated with the magnitude of activation difference between words and symbol strings in left superior temporal, inferior frontal and fusiform gyri. Grou

SUBMITTER: Chyl K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5729096 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature