Reading differences and brain: cortical integration of speech and print in sentence processing varies with reader skill.

Publisher: Routledge Country of Publication: England NLM ID: 8702038 Publication Model: Print Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1532-6942 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 15326942 NLM ISO Abbreviation: Dev Neuropsychol Subsets: MEDLINE

Publication: 2013- : London : Routledge
Original Publication: Hillsdale, N.J. : Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, c1985-

Brain Mapping* ; Language* ; Printing* ; Reading*; Cerebral Cortex/*physiology ; Speech/*physiology; Adolescent ; Cerebral Cortex/anatomy & histology ; Cerebral Cortex/blood supply ; Comprehension/physiology ; Female ; Functional Laterality/physiology ; Humans ; Image Processing, Computer-Assisted ; Magnetic Resonance Imaging/methods ; Male ; Neuropsychological Tests ; Oxygen/blood ; Young Adult

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to investigate the impact of literacy skills in young adults on the distribution of cerebral activity during comprehension of sentences in spoken and printed form. The aim was to discover where speech and print streams merge, and whether their convergence is affected by the level of reading skill. The results from different analyses all point to the conclusion that neural integration of sentence processing across speech and print varies positively with the reader's skill. Further, they identify the inferior frontal region as the principal site of speech-print integration and a major focus of reading comprehension differences. The findings provide new evidence of the role of the inferior frontal region in supporting supramodal systems of linguistic representation.

R01 HD040353 United States HD NICHD NIH HHS; HD-40353 United States HD NICHD NIH HHS

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Date Created: 20081114 Date Completed: 20090408 Latest Revision: 20211020

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10.1080/87565640802418688

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