期刊
CEREBRAL CORTEX
卷 24, 期 4, 页码 989-995出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bhs383
关键词
diffusion; language; literacy; plasticity; tractography
资金
- Institut National de la Sante et de la Recherche Medicale (INSERM)
- Commissariat a l'Energie Atomique (CEA)
- College de France
- French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (project CAFORPFC) [ANR-09-RPDOC-004-01]
- French Agence Nationale de la Recherche (project HM-TC) [ANR-09-EMER-006]
- SARAH Network of Rehabilitation Hospitals
The acquisition of literacy results from an effortful learning process that leads to functional changes in several cortical regions. We explored whether learning to read also leads to anatomical changes within the left intrahemispheric white matter pathways that interconnect these regions. Using diffusion tensor imaging tractography, we compared illiterates with ex-illiterates who learned to read during adulthood and literates who learned to read during their childhood. Literacy related to an increase in fractional anisotropy and a decrease in perpendicular diffusivity in the temporo-parietal portion of the left arcuate fasciculus. The microstructure within this pathway correlated with the reading performance and the degree of functional activation within 2 dominant brain regions involved in reading: The Visual Word Form Area in response to letter strings, and the posterior superior temporal cortex in response to spoken language. Thus, the acquisition of literacy is associated with a reinforcement of left temporo-parietal connections whose microstructure predicts overall reading performance and the functional specialization of the Visual Word Form Area. This anatomical magnetic resonance imaging marker may be useful to predict developmental reading disorders.
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