title: The relationship between phonological and auditory processing and brain organization in beginning readers.
abstract: We employed brain-behavior analyses to explore the relationship between performance on tasks measuring phonological awareness, pseudoword decoding, and rapid auditory processing (all predictors of reading (dis)ability) and brain organization for print and speech in beginning readers. For print-related activation, we observed a shared set of skill-correlated regions, including left hemisphere temporoparietal and occipitotemporal sites, as well as inferior frontal, visual, visual attention, and subcortical components. For speech-related activation, shared variance among reading skill measures was most prominently correlated with activation in left hemisphere inferior frontal gyrus and precuneus. Implications for brain-based models of literacy acquisition are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT, United States. pugh@haskins.yale.edu
authors.forename: Kenneth R
authors.initials: KR
authors.lastname: Pugh
authors.forename: Nicole
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Landi
authors.forename: Jonathan L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Preston
authors.forename: W Einar
authors.initials: WE
authors.lastname: Mencl
authors.forename: Alison C
authors.initials: AC
authors.lastname: Austin
authors.forename: Daragh
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Sibley
authors.forename: Robert K
authors.initials: RK
authors.lastname: Fulbright
authors.forename: Mark S
authors.initials: MS
authors.lastname: Seidenberg
authors.forename: Elena L
authors.initials: EL
authors.lastname: Grigorenko
authors.forename: R Todd
authors.initials: RT
authors.lastname: Constable
authors.forename: Peter
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Molfese
authors.forename: Stephen J
authors.initials: SJ
authors.lastname: Frost
mesh_terms: D001364:Awareness / Q000502:physiology; D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D001931:Brain Mapping; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010775:Photic Stimulation / Q000379:methods; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology; D011932:Reading; D013060:Speech / Q000502:physiology*; D013067:Speech Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*