title: Pathway evidence of how musical perception predicts word-level reading ability in children with reading difficulties.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To investigate whether specific domains of musical perception (temporal and melodic domains) predict the word-level reading skills of eight- to ten-year-old children (n = 235) with reading difficulties, normal quotient of intelligence, and no previous exposure to music education classes.
  
  
  METHODS
  A general-specific solution of the Montreal Battery of Evaluation of Amusia (MBEA), which underlies a musical perception construct and is constituted by three latent factors (the general, temporal, and the melodic domain), was regressed on word-level reading skills (rate of correct isolated words/non-words read per minute).
  
  
  RESULTS
  General and melodic latent domains predicted word-level reading skills.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology, Federal University of São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
authors.forename: Hugo
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Cogo-Moreira
authors.affiliation: Department of Hearing and Speech Pathology, Federal University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
authors.forename: Clara Regina
authors.initials: CR
authors.lastname: Brandão de Ávila
authors.affiliation:   Department of Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.
authors.forename: George B
authors.initials: GB
authors.lastname: Ploubidis
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology, Federal University of São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.
authors.forename: Jair
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: de Jesus Mari
mesh_terms: D001307:Auditory Perception / Q000502:physiology*; D002648:Child; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007806:Language Disorders / Q000503:physiopathology*; D008297:Male; D008954:Models, Biological; D009146:Music; D011932:Reading