Brain sensitivity to print emerges when children learn letter-speech sound correspondences
Brain sensitivity to print emerges when children learn letter-speech sound correspondences
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DOI:
10.1073/pnas.0904402107
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发表时间:
2010-04-27
影响因子:
11.1
通讯作者:
Richardson, Ulla
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作者:
Brem, Silvia;Bach, Silvia;Richardson, Ulla
The acquisition of reading skills is a major landmark process in a human's cognitive development. On the neural level, a new functional network develops during this time, as children typically learn to associate the well-known sounds of their spoken language with unfamiliar characters in alphabetic languages and finally access the meaning of written words, allowing for later reading. A critical component of the mature reading network located in the left occipito-temporal cortex, termed the "visual word-form system" (VWFS), exhibits print-sensitive activation in readers. When and how the sensitivity of the VWFS to print comes about remains an open question. In this study, we demonstrate the initiation of occipito-temporal cortex sensitivity to print using functional MRI (fMRI) (n = 16) and event-related potentials (ERP) (n = 32) in a controlled, longitudinal training study. Print sensitivity of fast (