Saturday, 6 January 2018

article review 8

Word and object recognition during reading acquisition: MEGevidence


The present study provides evidence that learning to read isassociated with changes in the way children treat visual configurations. The present study could highlight associations between brain changes and reading performance, it does not allow us to infer any causal relationship. Additional studies where the devel-opmental factors are controlled or kept constant (i.e., longitudinaldesigns, studies on children with the same age but different read-ing performances) are highly needed in order to clearly identify the consequences of reading acquisition.The better the reading performance the stronger is the involvement of the left language network in response to both writ-ten words and visual representations of objects. This seems to suggest that during reading training linguistic information can be better accessed through visual material.

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