Preregistered Wave 2 replicated Wave 1's finding of poorer audio-visual associative learning in children with dyslexia¶

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Evidence · 1 study · associational r2 · q3
Currency · newest study 2025 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q3 i? The preregistered second wave of data collection replicated the first wave's finding that both control groups showed higher asymptotic accuracy than children with DD. → 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

q3 · i? · associational · r2

Preregistered replication wave with 87 native Italian-speaking children (29 per group), analyzed with the same continuous-time learning model. In Wave 1 (n = 70) the same pattern held (age-matched vs. DD mean = 0.363). The article states the two-wave design "provides robust evidence for the observed patterns".

"In our preregistered Wave 2 (n = 87) 52, we replicated the finding that both age-matched and reading-matched groups demonstrated higher asymptotic accuracy in the learning task than children with DD (age-matched vs. DD mean = 0.706, CI95 = [0.541,0.932]; reading-matched vs. DD mean = 0.28, CI95 = [0.136,0.436]"

Discussion¶

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 — possibly the same claim (merge candidate)
• In a four-wave MOOC intervention study, statistically significant first-wave findings failed to replicate in subsequent preregistered waves — a broader claim this one bears on
• Children with dyslexia performed lower than both control groups on reading, reading-related and cognitive skills except nonverbal reasoning and syntactic comprehension — related