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Brain Responses to Letters and Speech Sounds and Their Correlations With Cognitive Skills Related to Reading in Children

Overview of attention for article published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, August 2018
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Title
Brain Responses to Letters and Speech Sounds and Their Correlations With Cognitive Skills Related to Reading in Children
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Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, August 2018
DOI 10.3389/fnhum.2018.00304
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Weiyong Xu, Orsolya B. Kolozsvari, Simo P. Monto, Jarmo A. Hämäläinen

Abstract

Letter-speech sound (LSS) integration is crucial for initial stages of reading acquisition. However, the relationship between cortical organization for supporting LSS integration, including unimodal and multimodal processes, and reading skills in early readers remains unclear. In the present study, we measured brain responses to Finnish letters and speech sounds from 29 typically developing Finnish children in a child-friendly audiovisual integration experiment using magnetoencephalography. Brain source activations in response to auditory, visual and audiovisual stimuli as well as audiovisual integration response were correlated with reading skills and cognitive skills predictive of reading development after controlling for the effect of age. Regression analysis showed that from the brain measures, the auditory late response around 400 ms showed the largest association with phonological processing and rapid automatized naming abilities. In addition, audiovisual integration effect was most pronounced in the left and right temporoparietal regions and the activities in several of these temporoparietal regions correlated with reading and writing skills. Our findings indicated the important role of temporoparietal regions in the early phase of learning to read and their unique contribution to reading skills.

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Unknown 69 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Master 14 20%
Student > Ph. D. Student 9 13%
Student > Bachelor 6 9%
Student > Postgraduate 6 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 5 7%
Other 10 14%
Unknown 19 28%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Psychology 13 19%
Neuroscience 11 16%
Social Sciences 5 7%
Nursing and Health Professions 3 4%
Linguistics 3 4%
Other 9 13%
Unknown 25 36%
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#2,247,502
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