In Chinese children aged 10-12, oral word reading efficiency is positively correlated with cortical thickness in the LSTG, LITG, LSMG and RSTG¶
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q2 i? Children who performed better in word reading had thicker cortex in the right superior temporal gyrus, left inferior temporal gyrus, left superior temporal gyrus and left supramarginal gyrus, controlling for age, gender and performance IQ. → Xia Zhichao 2018
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Xia Zhichao 2018¶
Xia Zhichao, Zhang Linjun, Hoeft Fumiko, Gu Bin, Gong Gaolang, Shu Hua. (2018). Neural Correlates of Oral Word Reading, Silent Reading Comprehension, and Cognitive Subcomponents. International Journal of Behavioral Development. https://doi.org/10.1177/0165025417727872
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Whole-brain vertex-wise regression (n = 21) in the Results section, with Random Field Theory correction (p-cluster < 0.05). Clusters were in the "right superior temporal gyrus", left inferior temporal gyrus, left superior temporal gyrus and left supramarginal gyrus; no regions showed a significant negative correlation.
"Significant positive correlations between CT and word reading efficiency were found in four brain areas after controlling for age, gender and performance IQ (Table 3, Figure 1A)."
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- For sentence comprehension regions, LPHP thickness is correlated with morphological awareness and RV1 thickness with orthography-semantic mapping — related
- The authors hypothesize that brain-reading cortical thickness correlations are positive in early reading acquisition and negative at later, consolidated stages — related
- The word-reading and comprehension cortical regions are specific to their respective reading level: cross-level correlations were nonsignificant after FDR correction — related
- In Chinese children aged 10-12, silent sentence reading comprehension is positively correlated with cortical thickness in the left parahippocampus and right calcarine fissure — related
- Reading-defined regions uniquely predict distinct cognitive subcomponents: LSTG for phonetic representation, LSMG for phonological awareness, and LITG for orthography-phonology mapping — a narrower finding that bears on this claim
- Word reading efficiency and sentence comprehension show distinct behavioral subcomponent profiles: word reading correlates with phonological subcomponents, comprehension with morphological awareness and orthography-semantic mapping — related
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In Chinese children aged 10-12, oral word reading efficiency is positively correlated with cortical thickness in the LSTG, LITG, LSMG and RSTG |
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In Chinese children aged 10-12, oral word reading efficiency is positively correlated with cortical thickness in the LSTG, LITG, LSMG and RSTG |
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