Developmental changes in the linguistic brain after puberty.
The development of reading skills is a complex and very long-lasting process. In an influential study Booth et al. demonstrated age-related changes in the activation of a network of left hemisphere regions, including the inferior frontal area, the superior temporal gyrus, and the angular gyrus. Interestingly, they found that the angular gyrus, which is involved in the mapping between phonological and orthographic representation, is automatically activated in adults during visual orthographic tasks not requiring this operation.
Proverbio
Alice M
AM
University of Milano-Bicocca, Piazza dell'Ateneo Nuovo 1, 20126 Milan, Italy. mado.proverbio@unimib.it
Zani
Alberto
A
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000375:Aging / Q000502:physiology*; D005071:Evoked Potentials; D006801:Humans; D007802:Language; D009415:Nerve Net / Q000502:physiology; D010296:Parietal Lobe / Q000254:growth & development*; D011627:Puberty / Q000502:physiology*; D011932:Reading