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9 - Longitudinal Neural Observation Studies of Dyslexia

from Part IV - Neurodevelopmental Foundations

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 July 2022

Michael A. Skeide
Affiliation:
Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences
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Summary

Learning to read is a remarkable feat with extraordinary consequences for cognitive and personal development. This learning process involves substantial changes in the function and structure of underlying brain networks. In most western industrialized societies, these changes take place across several years in early and middle childhood, from the onset of formal schooling at around 5 to 7 years of age to 3rd grade of primary school at around 7 to 9 years. Over this period, brain maturation processes co-occur with cognitive development shaped by learning and literacy experience (Dehaene et al. 2015). Longitudinal designs are useful for disambiguating the contribution of maturational changes from those associated with cognitive development and the individual trajectories of reading skills. This knowledge is important for advancing our understanding of the specific neurodevelopmental basis of both typical reading and dyslexia.

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Print publication year: 2022

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Chyl, K., Fraga González, G., Brem, S., and Jednoróg, K. 2021. ‘Brain Dynamics of (a)typical Reading development: A Review of Longitudinal Studies’. NPJ Science of Learning 6 (1): 19.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
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Hannagan, T., Amedi, A., Cohen, L., Dehaene-Lambertz, G., and Dehaene, S.. 2015. ‘Origins of the Specialization for Letters and Numbers in Ventral Occipitotemporal Cortex’. Trends in Cognitive Sciences 19 (7): 374–82.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
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Skeide, M. A., Kumar, U., Mishra, R. K., et al. (2017). ‘Learning to Read Alters Cortico-subcortical Cross-talk in the Visual System of Illiterates’. Science Advances 3 (5): e1602612.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed

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