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Spoken language proficiency predicts print-speech convergence in beginning readers
In: Neuroimage (2019)
Abstract: Learning to read transforms the brain, building on children’s existing capacities for language and visuospatial processing. In particular, the development of print-speech convergence, or the spatial overlap of neural regions necessary for both auditory and visual language processing, is critical for literacy acquisition. Print-speech convergence is a universal signature of proficient reading, yet the antecedents of this convergence remain unknown. Here we examine the relationship between spoken language proficiency and the emergence of the print-speech network in beginning readers (ages 5–6). Results demonstrate that children’s language proficiency, and not their early literacy skill, explains variance in their print-speech neural convergence in kindergarten. Furthermore, print-speech convergence in kindergarten predicts reading abilities one year later. These findings suggest that children’s language ability is a core mechanism guiding the neural plasticity for learning to read, and extend theoretical perspectives on language and literacy acquisition across the lifespan.
Keyword: Article
URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.neuroimage.2019.116021
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6765418/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31310862
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