Rhythm but not melody processing helps reading via phonological awareness and phonological memory.

ABSTRACT: Despite abundant evidence that music skills relate to enhanced reading performance, the mechanisms subtending this relation are still under discussion. The Temporal Sampling Framework (TSF) provides a well-defined explanation for the music-reading link: musical rhythm perception would relate to reading because it helps to encode speech units, which, in turn, is fundamental to reading. However, in spite of this clear mediation-based prediction (effect of music skills mediated by the encoding of speech units), the tests made to it so far remain inconclusive, either due to the use of hybrid measures (rhythm perception and production, musical and non-musical rhythm) or to underspecified mediation results (unclear presence of partial mediation). In the present study, we addressed these potentia

SUBMITTER: Sousa J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9346111 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature