title: From emergent literacy to reading: how learning to read changes a child's brain.
abstract: The ability to comprehend language is uniquely human. Behavioural and neuroimaging data reinforce the importance of intact oral language as foundational for the establishment of proficient reading. However, proficient reading is achieved not only via intact biological systems, but also a stimulating Home Literacy Environment.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Behavioural and neuroimaging correlates for linguistic ability and literacy exposure support the engagement of neural circuits related to reading acquisition.
authors.affiliation: Division of General and Community Pediatrics, Reading and Literacy Discovery Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA.|Pediatric Neuroimaging Research Consortium, Cincinnati, OH, USA.|Communication Sciences Research Center, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
authors.forename: Tzipi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Horowitz-Kraus
authors.affiliation: Division of General and Community Pediatrics, Reading and Literacy Discovery Center, Cincinnati, OH, USA.
authors.forename: John S
authors.initials: JS
authors.lastname: Hutton
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000254:growth & development* / Q000502:physiology; D002648:Child; D002657:Child Development / Q000502:physiology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D056344:Executive Function / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D000067010:Literacy; D011932:Reading
keywords: Dyslexia; Literacy; Narrative comprehension; Neuroimaging; Reading