期刊
CEREBRAL CORTEX
卷 24, 期 9, 页码 2489-2501出版社
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/cercor/bht104
关键词
developmental disorder; functional MRI; learning disability; pediatric neuroimaging; reading disability
资金
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development [1R01HD065762-01/02]
- Charles H. Hood Foundation
- Boston Children's Hospital Pilot Grant
- Swiss National Foundation
- Janggen-Pohn Stiftung
Developmental dyslexia (DD) is a learning disability affecting 5-17% of children. Although researchers agree that DD is characterized by deficient phonological processing (PP), its cause is debated. It has been suggested that altered rapid auditory processing (RAP) may lead to deficient PP in DD and studies have shown deficient RAP in individuals with DD. Functional neuroimaging (fMRI) studies have implicated hypoactivations in left prefrontal brain regions during RAP in individuals with DD. When and how these neuronal alterations evolve remains unknown. In this article, we investigate functional networks during RAP in 28 children with (n = 14) and without (n = 14) a familial risk for DD before reading onset (mean: 5.6 years). Results reveal functional alterations in left-hemispheric prefrontal regions during RAP in prereading children at risk for DD, similar to findings in individuals with DD. Furthermore, activation during RAP in left prefrontal regions positively correlates with prereading measures of PP and with neuronal activation during PP in posterior dorsal and ventral brain areas. Our results suggest that neuronal differences during RAP predate reading instruction and thus are not due to experience-dependent brain changes resulting from DD itself and that there is a functional relationship between neuronal networks for RAP and PP within the prereading brain.
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