Brain activity in struggling readers before intervention relates to future reading gains.

ABSTRACT: Neural markers for reading-related changes in response to intervention could inform intervention plans by serving as a potential index of the malleability of the reading network in struggling readers. Of particular interest is the role of brain activation outside the reading network, especially in executive control networks important for reading comprehension. However, it is unclear whether any intervention-related executive control changes in the brain are specific to reading tasks or reflect more domain general changes. Brain changes associated with reading gains over time were compared for a sentence comprehension task as well as for a non-lexical executive control task (a behavioral inhibition task) in upper-elementary struggling readers, and in grade-matched non-struggling readers. Fu

SUBMITTER: Nugiel T 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6420828 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature