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Lee CE, Pagán A, Godwin HJ, Drieghe D. Individual differences and the transposed letter effect during reading. PLoS One 2024; 19:e0298351. [PMID: 38416772 PMCID: PMC10901340 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0298351] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/29/2023] [Accepted: 01/22/2024] [Indexed: 03/01/2024] Open
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When a preview contains substituted letters (SL; markey) word identification is more disrupted for a target word (monkey), compared to when the preview contains transposed letters (TL; mnokey). The transposed letter effect demonstrates that letter positions are encoded more flexibly than letter identities, and is a robust finding in adults. However, letter position encoding has been shown to gradually become more flexible as reading skills develop. It is unclear whether letter position encoding flexibility reaches maturation in skilled adult readers, or whether some differences in the magnitude of the TL effect remain in relation to individual differences in cognitive skills. We examined 100 skilled adult readers who read sentences containing a correct, TL or SL preview. Previews were replaced by the correct target word when the reader's gaze triggered an invisible boundary. Cognitive skills were assessed and grouped based on overlapping variance via Principal Components Analysis (PCA) and subsequently used to predict eye movement measures for each condition. Consistent with previous literature, adult readers were found to generally encode letter position more flexibly than letter identity. Very few differences were found in the magnitude of TL effects between adults based on individual differences in cognitive skills. The flexibility of letter position encoding appears to reach maturation (or near maturation) in skilled adult readers.
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- Charlotte E. Lee
- School of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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- School of Psychology and Vision Sciences, University of Leicester, Leicester, United Kingdom
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- School of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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- School of Psychology, University of Southampton, Southampton, United Kingdom
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Hirshorn EA, Harris LN. Culture is not destiny, for reading: highlighting variable routes to literacy within writing systems. Ann N Y Acad Sci 2022; 1513:31-47. [PMID: 35313016 DOI: 10.1111/nyas.14768] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/21/2021] [Accepted: 02/17/2022] [Indexed: 01/17/2023]
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Cross-writing system research in psychology and cognitive neuroscience has yielded important findings regarding how a writing system's structure can influence the cognitive challenges of learning to read and the neural underpinnings of literacy. The current paper reviews these differences and extends the findings to demonstrate diversity in how skilled reading is accomplished within a single writing system, English. We argue that broad clusters of behavioral and neural patterns found across writing systems can also be found within subpopulations who display atypical routes to skilled English reading, subpopulations including Chinese-English bilinguals, deaf native signers, compensated readers, and distortion-sensitive readers. The patterns of interest include a tradeoff between the degree of reliance on phonological and morphological processing for skilled reading, a shift in attentional focus from smaller to larger orthographic units, and enhanced bilaterality of neural processing during word reading. Lastly, we consider how understanding atypical routes to reading may apply to other writing systems.
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- Department of Leadership, Educational Psychology and Foundations, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, Illinois
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Denis-Noël A, Pattamadilok C, Castet É, Colé P. Activation time-course of phonological code in silent word recognition in adult readers with and without dyslexia. ANNALS OF DYSLEXIA 2020; 70:313-338. [PMID: 32712818 DOI: 10.1007/s11881-020-00201-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2019] [Accepted: 05/19/2020] [Indexed: 06/11/2023]
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In skilled adult readers, reading words is generally assumed to rapidly and automatically activate the phonological code. In adults with dyslexia, despite the main consensus on their phonological processing deficits, little is known about the activation time course of this code. The present study investigated this issue in both populations. Participants' accuracy and eye movements were recorded while they performed a visual lexical decision task in which phonological consistency of written words was manipulated. Readers with dyslexia were affected by phonological consistency during second fixation duration of visual word recognition suggesting a late activation of the phonological code. Regarding skilled readers, no influence of phonological consistency was found when the participants were considered a homogeneous population. However, a different pattern emerged when they were divided into two subgroups according to their phonological and semantic abilities: Those who showed better decoding than semantic skills were affected by phonological consistency at the earliest stage of visual word recognition while those who showed better semantic than decoding skills were not affected by this factor at any processing stage. Overall, the findings suggest that the presence of phonological deficits in readers with dyslexia is associated with a delayed activation of phonological representations during reading. In skilled readers, the contribution of phonology varies with their reading profile, i.e., being phonologically or semantically oriented.
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- Ambre Denis-Noël
- Laboratoire Parole et Langage (UMR 7309 C.N.R.S.), Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, LPL, 5 Avenue Pasteur, 13100, Aix-en-Provence, France.
- Aix-Marseille Univ, ILCB, Aix-en-Provence, France.
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- Laboratoire Parole et Langage (UMR 7309 C.N.R.S.), Aix-Marseille Université, CNRS, LPL, 5 Avenue Pasteur, 13100, Aix-en-Provence, France
- Aix-Marseille Univ, ILCB, Aix-en-Provence, France
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- Aix-Marseille Univ, ILCB, Aix-en-Provence, France
- Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive (UMR 7290 C.N.R.S), Aix-Marseille Univ, CNRS, LPC, 3 Place Victor Hugo, 13003, Marseille, France
- Aix-Marseille Univ, Fédération 3C, Marseille, France
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- Aix-Marseille Univ, ILCB, Aix-en-Provence, France.
- Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive (UMR 7290 C.N.R.S), Aix-Marseille Univ, CNRS, LPC, 3 Place Victor Hugo, 13003, Marseille, France.
- Aix-Marseille Univ, Fédération 3C, Marseille, France.
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Welcome SE, Trammel ER. ERPs Reveal Relationships Between Neural Orthographic Priming Effects and Reading Skill. J PSYCHOPHYSIOL 2019. [DOI: 10.1027/0269-8803/a000211] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/23/2022]
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Abstract. Masked priming has long been used to demonstrate the impact of brief presentations of orthographically related stimuli on visual word recognition. The aim of the present study was to examine neural correlates of orthographic priming produced by pronounceable and unpronounceable anagram primes. Crucially, we examined relationships between these priming effects and individual differences on a battery of measures assessing orthographic processing ability, current reading ability, and verbal intelligence in university students. Our study demonstrated group-level priming effects on the N200 and N400, with both components being primarily modulated by unpronounceable, orthographically illegal primes. Relationships between the extent of priming as indexed by N200 amplitude and speed of orthographic processing emerged, as reaction time (RT) on an orthographic choice task was associated with priming effects. Priming effects on N400 amplitude were related to phonological decoding efficiency. Those individuals with less efficient orthographic or phonological processing were more sensitive to the orthographic relationship between primes and targets. These findings demonstrate that university students vary in their sensitivity to orthographic priming and the degree to which orthographic information is used during word recognition.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Missouri – St. Louis, MO, USA
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Xia Z, Zhang L, Hoeft F, Gu B, Gong G, Shu H. Neural Correlates of Oral Word Reading, Silent Reading Comprehension, and Cognitive Subcomponents. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF BEHAVIORAL DEVELOPMENT 2018; 42:342-356. [PMID: 29904229 DOI: 10.1177/0165025417727872] [Citation(s) in RCA: 16] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/16/2022]
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The ability to read is essential for cognitive development. To deepen our understanding of reading acquisition, we explored the neuroanatomical correlates (cortical thickness (CT)) of word reading fluency and sentence comprehension efficiency in Chinese with a group of typically developing children (N = 21; 12 females and 9 males; age range 10.7-12.3 years). Then, we investigated the relationship between the CT of reading-defined regions and the cognitive subcomponents of reading to determine whether our study lends support to the multi-component model. The results demonstrated that children's performance on oral word reading was positively correlated with CT in the left superior temporal gyrus (LSTG), inferior temporal gyrus (LITG), supramarginal gyrus (LSMG) and right superior temporal gyrus (RSTG). Moreover, CT in the LSTG, LSMG and LITG uniquely predicted children's phonetic representation, phonological awareness, and orthography-phonology mapping skills, respectively. By contrast, children's performance on sentence reading comprehension was positively correlated with CT in the left parahippocampus (LPHP) and right calcarine fissure (RV1). As for the subcomponents of reading, CT in the LPHP was exclusively correlated with morphological awareness, whereas CT in the RV1 was correlated with orthography-semantic mapping. Taken together, these findings indicate that the reading network of typically developing children consists of multiple subdivisions, thus providing neuroanatomical evidence in support of the multi-componential view of reading.
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- Zhichao Xia
- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning & IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, China.,Center for Collaboration and Innovation in Brain and Learning Sciences, Beijing Normal University, China.,Department of Psychiatry and Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), USA
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- Faculty of Linguistic Sciences and KIT-BLCU MEG Laboratory for Brain Science, Beijing Language and Culture University, China
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- Department of Psychiatry and Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), USA.,Precision Learning Center (PrecL), UC, USA.,Dyslexia Center, UCSF, USA.,Haskins Laboratories, 300 George Street #900, New Haven, USA.,Department of Neuropsychiatry, Keio University School of Medicine, Japan
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning & IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, China.,Center for Collaboration and Innovation in Brain and Learning Sciences, Beijing Normal University, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning & IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, China.,Center for Collaboration and Innovation in Brain and Learning Sciences, Beijing Normal University, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning & IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, China.,Center for Collaboration and Innovation in Brain and Learning Sciences, Beijing Normal University, China
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Patael SZ, Farris EA, Black JM, Hancock R, Gabrieli JDE, Cutting LE, Hoeft F. Brain basis of cognitive resilience: Prefrontal cortex predicts better reading comprehension in relation to decoding. PLoS One 2018; 13:e0198791. [PMID: 29902208 PMCID: PMC6002103 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0198791] [Citation(s) in RCA: 18] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/17/2016] [Accepted: 05/28/2018] [Indexed: 12/03/2022] Open
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OBJECTIVE The ultimate goal of reading is to understand written text. To accomplish this, children must first master decoding, the ability to translate printed words into sounds. Although decoding and reading comprehension are highly interdependent, some children struggle to decode but comprehend well, whereas others with good decoding skills fail to comprehend. The neural basis underlying individual differences in this discrepancy between decoding and comprehension abilities is virtually unknown. METHODS We investigated the neural basis underlying reading discrepancy, defined as the difference between reading comprehension and decoding skills, in a three-part study: 1) The neuroanatomical basis of reading discrepancy in a cross-sectional sample of school-age children with a wide range of reading abilities (Experiment-1; n = 55); 2) Whether a discrepancy-related neural signature is present in beginning readers and predictive of future discrepancy (Experiment-2; n = 43); and 3) Whether discrepancy-related regions are part of a domain-general or a language specialized network, utilizing the 1000 Functional Connectome data and large-scale reverse inference from Neurosynth.org (Experiment-3). RESULTS Results converged onto the left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC), as related to having discrepantly higher reading comprehension relative to decoding ability. Increased gray matter volume (GMV) was associated with greater discrepancy (Experiment-1). Region-of-interest (ROI) analyses based on the left DLPFC cluster identified in Experiment-1 revealed that regional GMV within this ROI in beginning readers predicted discrepancy three years later (Experiment-2). This region was associated with the fronto-parietal network that is considered fundamental for working memory and cognitive control (Experiment-3). INTERPRETATION Processes related to the prefrontal cortex might be linked to reading discrepancy. The findings may be important for understanding cognitive resilience, which we operationalize as those individuals with greater higher-order reading skills such as reading comprehension compared to lower-order reading skills such as decoding skills. Our study provides insights into reading development, existing theories of reading, and cognitive processes that are potentially significant to a wide range of reading disorders.
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- Smadar Z. Patael
- Department of Psychiatry and Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Department of Communication Disorders, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
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- Department of Psychiatry and Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Tennessee Center for the Study and Treatment of Dyslexia, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, United States of America
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- School of Social Work, McGuinn Hall, Boston College, Chestnut Hill, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Department of Psychological Sciences, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America
- Brain Imaging Research Center, University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, United States of America
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- Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
- Institute for Medical Engineering & Science, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America
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- Peabody College, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Vanderbilt Brain Institute, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, Tennessee, United States of America
- Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
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- Department of Psychiatry and Weill Institute for Neurosciences, University of California, San Francisco, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, Connecticut, United States of America
- UC-Stanford Multi-University Precision Learning Center, San Francisco, California, United States of America
- Department of Neuropsychiatry, Keio University School of Medicine, Tokyo, Japan
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Wiseheart R, Altmann LJP. Spoken sentence production in college students with dyslexia: working memory and vocabulary effects. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF LANGUAGE & COMMUNICATION DISORDERS 2018; 53:355-369. [PMID: 29159849 DOI: 10.1111/1460-6984.12353] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/15/2017] [Revised: 09/19/2017] [Accepted: 09/29/2017] [Indexed: 06/07/2023]
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BACKGROUND Individuals with dyslexia demonstrate syntactic difficulties on tasks of language comprehension, yet little is known about spoken language production in this population. AIMS To investigate whether spoken sentence production in college students with dyslexia is less proficient than in typical readers, and to determine whether group differences can be attributable to cognitive differences between groups. METHODS & PROCEDURES Fifty-one college students with and without dyslexia were asked to produce sentences from stimuli comprising a verb and two nouns. Verb types varied in argument structure and morphological form and nouns varied in animacy. Outcome measures were precision (measured by fluency, grammaticality and completeness) and efficiency (measured by response times). Vocabulary and working memory tests were also administered and used as predictors of sentence production performance. OUTCOMES & RESULTS Relative to non-dyslexic peers, students with dyslexia responded significantly slower and produced sentences that were significantly less precise in terms of fluency, grammaticality and completeness. The primary predictors of precision and efficiency were working memory, which differed between groups, and vocabulary, which did not. CONCLUSIONS & IMPLICATIONS College students with dyslexia were significantly less facile and flexible on this spoken sentence-production task than typical readers, which is consistent with previous studies of school-age children with dyslexia. Group differences in performance were traced primarily to limited working memory, and were somewhat mitigated by strong vocabulary.
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- Rebecca Wiseheart
- St. John's University, Communication Sciences and Disorders, Queens, NY, USA
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- University of Florida, Speech, Language, and Hearing Sciences, Gainesville, FL, USA
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Welcome SE, Trammel ER. Individual differences in orthographic priming relate to phonological decoding skill in adults. Cogn Process 2017; 18:119-128. [PMID: 28188455 DOI: 10.1007/s10339-017-0793-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/24/2016] [Accepted: 02/03/2017] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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We examined relationships between individual differences in orthographic priming and a battery of measures assessing orthographic processing ability, reading history, current reading ability, and verbal intelligence in university students. Pronounceable and unpronounceable nonword primes preceded word and nonword targets. Individual differences in nonword reading skill and other measures of reading and spelling ability were associated with the degree of orthographic priming. Individuals with less phonological decoding skill benefited more from anagram primes for word targets preceded by unpronounceable primes and nonword targets preceded by pronounceable primes. Analyses of extreme groups revealed that the group with the lowest phonemic decoding efficiency scores showed a general benefit of orthographic relatedness, while the group with the highest phonemic decoding efficiency scores showed a benefit only under certain conditions. Thus, individuals with worse nonword reading skills may have less precise orthographic representations and therefore benefit more from overlapping coarse-grained orthographic information, regardless of the pronounceability of the prime or the lexical status of the target. These findings demonstrate that university students vary in their orthographic processing skill and the degree to which orthographic information is used during word recognition.
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- Suzanne E Welcome
- Department of Psychology, University of Missouri - St. Louis, One University Boulevard, 325 Stadler Hall, St. Louis, MO, 63121-4499, USA.
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- Department of Psychology, University of Missouri - St. Louis, One University Boulevard, 325 Stadler Hall, St. Louis, MO, 63121-4499, USA
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Welcome SE, Alton AC. Individual differences in the effect of orthographic/phonological conflict on rhyme and spelling decisions. PLoS One 2015; 10:e0119734. [PMID: 25751539 PMCID: PMC4353721 DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0119734] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/19/2014] [Accepted: 02/01/2015] [Indexed: 11/19/2022] Open
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In typical readers, orthographic knowledge has been shown to influence phonological decisions. In the present study, we used visual rhyme and spelling tasks to investigate the interaction of orthographic and phonological information in adults with varying reading skill. Word pairs that shared both orthography and phonology (e.g., throat/boat), differed in both orthography and phonology (e.g., snow/arm), shared only orthography (e.g., farm/warm), and shared only phonology (e.g., vote/boat) were visually presented to university students who varied in reading ability. For rhyme judgment, participants were slower and less accurate to accept rhyming pairs when words were spelled differently and to reject non-rhyming pairs when words were spelled similarly. Similarly, for spelling judgments, participants were slower and less accurate when indicating that word endings were spelled differently when words rhymed, and slower and less accurate when indicating that words were spelled similarly when words did not rhyme. Crucially, while these effects were clear at the group level, there were large individual differences in the extent to which participants were impacted by conflict. In two separate samples, reading skill was associated with the extent to which orthographic conflict impacted rhyme decisions such that individuals with better nonword reading performance were less impacted by orthographic conflict. Thus, university students with poorer reading skills may differ from their peers either in the reading strategies they use or in the degree to which they automatically access word form information. Understanding these relationships is important for understanding the roles that reading processes play in readers of different skill.
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- Suzanne E. Welcome
- Department of Psychology, University of Missouri—St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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- Department of Psychology, University of Missouri—St. Louis, St. Louis, Missouri, United States of America
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Nakeva Von Mentzer C, Lyxell B, Sahlén B, Dahlström Ö, Lindgren M, Ors M, Kallioinen P, Engström E, Uhlén I. Segmental and suprasegmental properties in nonword repetition--an explorative study of the associations with nonword decoding in children with normal hearing and children with bilateral cochlear implants. CLINICAL LINGUISTICS & PHONETICS 2015; 29:216-235. [PMID: 25489675 DOI: 10.3109/02699206.2014.987926] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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This study explored nonword repetition (NWR) and nonword decoding in normal-hearing (NH) children and in children with bilateral cochlear implants (CI). Participants were 11 children, with CI, 5:0-7:11 years (M = 6.5 years), and 11 NH children, individually age-matched to the children with CI. This study fills an important gap in research, since it thoroughly describes detailed aspects of NWR and nonword decoding and their possible associations. All children were assessed after having practiced with a computer-assisted reading intervention with a phonics approach during four weeks. Results showed that NH children outperformed children with CI on the majority of aspects of NWR. The analysis of syllable number in NWR revealed that children with CI made more syllable omissions than did the NH children, and predominantly in prestressed positions. In addition, the consonant cluster analysis in NWR showed significantly more consonant omissions and substitutions in children with CI suggesting that reaching fine-grained levels of phonological processing was particularly difficult for these children. No significant difference was found for nonword-decoding accuracy between the groups, as measured by whole words correct and phonemes correct, but differences were observed regarding error patterns. In children with CI phoneme, deletions occurred significantly more often than in children with NH. The correlation analysis revealed that the ability to repeat consonant clusters in NWR had the strongest associations to nonword decoding in both groups. The absence of as frequent significant associations between NWR and nonword decoding in children with CI compared to children with NH suggest that these children partly use other decoding strategies to compensate for less precise phonological knowledge, for example, lexicalizations in nonword decoding, specifically, making a real word of a nonword.
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- Cecilia Nakeva Von Mentzer
- Department of Behavioral Sciences and Learning, Swedish Institute for Disability Research, Linköping University , Linköping , Sweden
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Bloom JS, Garcia-Barrera MA, Miller CJ, Miller SR, Hynd GW. Planum temporale morphology in children with developmental dyslexia. Neuropsychologia 2013; 51:1684-92. [PMID: 23707683 PMCID: PMC3799899 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2013.05.012] [Citation(s) in RCA: 19] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/18/2012] [Revised: 04/23/2013] [Accepted: 05/07/2013] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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The planum temporale is a highly lateralized cortical region, located within Wernicke's area, which is thought to be involved in auditory processing, phonological processing, and language. Research has linked abnormal morphology of the planum temporale to developmental dyslexia, although results have varied in large part due to methodological inconsistencies in the literature. This study examined the asymmetry of the planum temporale in 29 children who met criteria for dyslexia and 26 children whose reading was unimpaired. Leftward asymmetry of the planum temporale was found in the total sample and this leftward asymmetry was significantly reduced in children with dyslexia. This reduced leftward asymmetry in children with dyslexia was due to a planum temporale that is larger in the right hemisphere. This study lends support to the idea that planum temporale asymmetry is altered in children with developmental dyslexia.
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Chiarello C, Vazquez D, Felton A, Leonard CM. Structural asymmetry of anterior insula: behavioral correlates and individual differences. BRAIN AND LANGUAGE 2013; 126:109-22. [PMID: 23681069 PMCID: PMC3722256 DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2013.03.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 40] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/16/2012] [Revised: 02/22/2013] [Accepted: 03/28/2013] [Indexed: 06/01/2023]
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The current study investigated behavioral correlates of structural asymmetry of the insula, and traditional perisylvian language regions, in a large sample of young adults (N=200). The findings indicated (1) reliable leftward surface area asymmetry of the anterior insula, (2) association of this asymmetry with divided visual field lateralization of visual word recognition, and (3) modulation of the correlation of structural and linguistic asymmetry by consistency of hand preference. Although leftward asymmetry of cortical surface area was observed for the anterior insula, pars opercularis and triangularis, and planum temporale, only the anterior insula asymmetry was associated with lateralized word recognition. We interpret these findings within the context of recent structural and functional findings about the human insula. We suggest that leftward structural lateralization of earlier developing insular cortex may bootstrap asymmetrical functional lateralization even if the insula is only a minor component of the adult language network.
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- Christine Chiarello
- Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside CA 92521, USA.
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Binder KS, Lee C, College MH. Reader Profiles for Adults with Low Literacy Skills: A Quest to Find Resilient Readers. JOURNAL OF RESEARCH AND PRACTICE FOR ADULT LITERACY, SECONDARY, AND BASIC EDUCATION 2012; 1:78-90. [PMID: 25431747 PMCID: PMC4243845] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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Resilient readers are those who, despite their poor phonological decoding skills, have good comprehension abilities (Jackson & Doellinger, 2002). Thus far, these readers have been identified in college settings. The purpose of this study was to a) determine if this reader profile was present in a sample taken from an Adult Basic Education (ABE) population, and b) identify compensatory mechanisms these readers might use to better their reading comprehension. We administered a battery of tasks consisting of non-word reading, comprehension, fluency, and orthographic processing to a diverse sample of adults in ABE classes. Not only did we identify a group of resilient readers in this sample, we identified three other sub-groups: unskilled readers who had poor decoding and comprehension abilities, skilled readers who possessed good decoding and comprehension abilities, and a group of individuals who had good decoding skills but poor comprehension abilities. We found that the resilient readers and good decoders/poor comprehenders had better orthographic and fluency skills compared to the unskilled readers. However, these last two groups produced different error patterns on the orthographic and fluency tasks. We discuss the implications that these very different reader profiles have for ABE programs.
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Chiarello C, Welcome SE, Leonard CM. Individual differences in reading skill and language lateralisation: a cluster analysis. Laterality 2011; 17:225-51. [PMID: 22385144 PMCID: PMC3296279 DOI: 10.1080/1357650x.2011.561860] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
Abstract
Individual differences in reading and cerebral lateralisation were investigated in 200 college students who completed reading assessments and divided visual field word recognition tasks, and received a structural MRI scan. Prior studies on this data set indicated that little variance in brain-behaviour correlations could be attributed to the effects of sex and handedness variables (Chiarello, Welcome, Halderman, & Leonard, 2009; Chiarello, Welcome, Halderman, Towler, et al., 2009; Welcome et al., 2009). Here a more bottom-up approach to behavioural classification (cluster analysis) was used to explore individual differences that need not depend on a priori decisions about relevant subgroups. The cluster solution identified four subgroups of college age readers with differing reading skill and visual field lateralisation profiles. These findings generalised to measures that were not included in the cluster analysis. Poorer reading skill was associated with somewhat reduced VF asymmetry, while average readers demonstrated exaggerated RVF/left hemisphere advantages. Skilled readers had either reduced asymmetries, or asymmetries that varied by task. The clusters did not differ by sex or handedness, suggesting that there are identifiable sources of variance among individuals that are not captured by these standard participant variables. All clusters had typical leftward asymmetry of the planum temporale. However, the size of areas in the posterior corpus callosum distinguished the two subgroups with high reading skill. A total of 17 participants, identified as multivariate outliers, had unusual behavioural profiles and differed from the remainder of the sample in not having significant leftward asymmetry of the planum temporale. A less buffered type of neurodevelopment that is more open to the effects of random genetic and environmental influences may characterise such individuals.
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Affiliation(s)
- Christine Chiarello
- Department of Psychology, University of California, Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521, USA.
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