Brain plasticity in developmental dyslexia after phonological treatment: a beta EEG band study.
Linguistic EEG hemispheric reorganization was investigated in 14 dyslexic children after a 6-month phonological training (10 min/day through PC software). Error rates from three linguistic tasks significantly decreased and reading speed improved after the training. A significant positive correlation (r(12)=0.536) was found at posterior sites for the phonological task only, showing that those children who had the greatest reading speed enhancement showed the largest left posterior EEG beta power increase.
Penolazzi
Barbara
B
Department of Biomedical Sciences, University G. d'Annunzio of Chieti, Blocco A - Via Dei Vestini I-66013 Chieti, Italy.
Spironelli
Chiara
C
Vio
Claudio
C
Angrilli
Alessandro
A
D000704:Analysis of Variance; D001611:Beta Rhythm; D004410:Dyslexia / Q000534:rehabilitation*; D007839:Functional Laterality; D006801:Humans; D007808:Language Therapy; D009473:Neuronal Plasticity / Q000502:physiology*; D010700:Phonetics; D011932:Reading