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3-142 - Neuroimaging of Factors that Influence Reading Development

Sat, April 8, 12:30 to 2:00pm, Hilton Austin, Meeting Room 412

Session Type: Paper Symposium

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The research presented in this symposium uses structural and functional neuroimaging to inform prediction of and intervention for reading difficulties throughout childhood into young adulthood. Neuroimaging is a useful tool to identify children at risk for reading disabilities, to understand how some at risk children do not develop reading impairments, to identify factors that influence existing reading problems, such as inattention, and to optimize teaching strategies for word learning.

Paper 1 suggests that brain measures, specifically diffusion-weighted MRI and ERP, can be leveraged to improve the classification of young children at risk to become future poor readers, by testing early reading skills. Paper 2 complements this research through investigation of the putative compensatory neural mechanisms that support good reading development in children with a family history of developmental dyslexia. Paper 3 highlights how attention interacts with sentence comprehension in struggling readers, suggesting that inattention may relate to neural activity during sentence reading, above and beyond reading ability. Finally, Paper 4 finds that, in young adults, elaborative feedback while learning novel spelling-sound mappings increases activation in regions often underactivated in individuals with dyslexia, and this effect was stronger for younger individuals. Together, these papers help us better understand the neural mechanisms of poor reading throughout development: in early identification, in those that are resilient despite being at risk, in the larger cognitive context, and in facilitating learning even into young adulthood.

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