Reading skill related to left ventral occipitotemporal cortex during a phonological awareness task in 5-6-year old children.

ABSTRACT: The left ventral occipitotemporal cortex (vOT) is important in visual word recognition. Studies have shown that the left vOT is generally observed to be involved in spoken language processing in skilled readers, suggesting automatic access to corresponding orthographic information. However, little is known about where and how the left vOT is involved in the spoken language processing of young children with emerging reading ability. In order to answer this question, we examined the relation of reading ability in 5-6-year-old kindergarteners to the activation of vOT during an auditory phonological awareness task. Two experimental conditions: onset word pairs that shared the first phoneme and rhyme word pairs that shared the final biphone/triphone, were compared to allow a measurement of vOT'

SUBMITTER: Wang J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6047864 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature