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NPJ SCIENCE OF LEARNING
卷 6, 期 1, 页码 -出版社
NATURE PORTFOLIO
DOI: 10.1038/s41539-021-00112-9
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- Agence Nationale de la Recherche [ANR-14-CE30-0002, ANR-17-CE28-0014]
- Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR) [ANR-17-CE28-0014] Funding Source: Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR)
The study shows that home literacy practices are associated with enhanced word adaptation in the brain and may improve children's vocabulary skills, which in turn influence neural mechanisms supporting word-level reading.
Previous studies indicate that children are exposed to different literacy experiences at home. Although these disparities have been shown to affect children's literacy skills, it remains unclear whether and how home literacy practices influence brain activity underlying word-level reading. In the present study, we asked parents of French children from various socioeconomic backgrounds (n = 66; 8.46 +/- 0.36 years, range 7.52-9.22; 20 girls) to report the frequency of home literacy practices. Neural adaptation to the repetition of printed words was then measured using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) in a subset of these children (n = 44; 8.49 +/- 0.33 years, range 8.02-9.14; 13 girls), thereby assessing how sensitive was the brain to the repeated presentation of these words. We found that more frequent home literacy practices were associated with enhanced word adaptation in the left posterior inferior frontal sulcus (r = 0.32). We also found that the frequency of home literacy practices was associated with children's vocabulary skill (r = 0.25), which itself influenced the relation between home literacy practices and neural adaptation to words. Finally, none of these effects were observed in a digit adaptation task, highlighting their specificity to word recognition. These findings are consistent with a model positing that home literacy experiences may improve children's vocabulary skill, which in turn may influence the neural mechanisms supporting word-level reading.
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