Neural processing of vision and language in kindergarten is associated with prereading skills and predicts future literacy.

ABSTRACT: The main objective of this longitudinal study was to investigate the neural predictors of reading acquisition. For this purpose, we followed a sample of 54 children from the end of kindergarten to the end of second grade. Preliterate children were tested for visual symbol (checkerboards, houses, faces, written words) and auditory language processing (spoken words) using a passive functional magnetic resonance imaging paradigm. To examine brain-behavior relationships, we also tested cognitive-linguistic prereading skills at kindergarten age and reading performance of 48 of the same children 2 years later. Face-selective response in the bilateral fusiform gyrus was positively associated with rapid automatized naming (RAN). Response to both spoken and written words at preliterate age was nega

SUBMITTER: Liebig J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8249894 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature