Associations between Brain Microstructure and Phonological Processing Ability in Preschool Children.

ABSTRACT: Neuroimaging studies have associated brain changes in children with future reading and language skills, but few studies have investigated the association between language skills and white matter structure in preschool-aged children. Using 208 data sets acquired in 73 healthy children aged 2-7 years, we investigated the relationship between developmental brain microstructure and phonological processing ability as measured using their phonological processing raw score (PPRS). The correlation analysis showed that across the whole age group, with increasing age, PPRS increased, fractional anisotropy (FA) of the internal capsule and inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus and some other regions increased, and mean diffusivity (MD) of the corpus callosum and internal capsule and some other regions

SUBMITTER: Zhou Y 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9221994 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature