Phonological awareness does not correlate with non-linguistic audio-visual learning in any group of children¶

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Subclaims¶

q2 i? Performance in the phonological awareness task showed no significant correlation with learning in the AV task across any of the groups, supporting the task's non-linguistic character. → Pasqualotto 2025

Evidence¶

Pasqualotto 2025¶

Pasqualotto, A., Cochrane, A., Venuti, P. et al. (2025). Impaired audio-visual associations in dyslexia: evidence beyond linguistic processing. npj Science of Learning. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-025-00382-7

q2 · i? · associational · r2

Correlational analysis relating time-taken-to-learn in the AV task to linguistic and cognitive measures (Figure 5); correlations were not corrected for multiple comparisons. The null phonological-awareness result matches prior adult findings and supports the expectation that phonological skills are not directly related to learning efficiency in this task.

"First, performance in the phonological awareness task did not show a significant correlation with learning in the AV task across any of the groups, in line with what was previously reported in adults47."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Phonological Awareness — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes

Related Claims¶

• Children with developmental dyslexia reach lower asymptotic accuracy in non-linguistic audio-visual associative learning than age-matched and reading-matched typically-developing peers — related
• Non-phonological cognitive skills correlate with AV learning efficiency: syntactic comprehension in reading-matched and DD groups, cognitive flexibility in DD, and verbal working memory in age-matched children — related