The role of executive functions in fluent reading: Lessons from reading acquisition and remediation

T Horowitz‐Kraus - Mind, Brain, and Education, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
This review paper aims to define the involvement of Executive Functions (EF) in reading
fluency in typically developing children and those with reading difficulties (RD)/dyslexia …

Increased resting-state functional connectivity in the cingulo-opercular cognitive-control network after intervention in children with reading difficulties

T Horowitz-Kraus, C Toro-Serey, M DiFrancesco - PloS one, 2015 - journals.plos.org
Dyslexia, or reading difficulty, is characterized by slow, inaccurate reading accompanied by
executive dysfunction. Reading training using the Reading Acceleration Program improves …

Fluent contextual reading is associated with greater synchronization of the visual and auditory networks, fluent reading and better speed of processing in children with …

T Horowitz-Kraus, K Rosch, J Fotang, SH Mostofsky… - Cortex, 2023 - Elsevier
The asynchrony theory of dyslexia postulates weaker visual (orthographical processing) and
auditory (phonological processing) network synchrony in dyslexic readers. The weaker …

Funções executivas na dislexia do desenvolvimento: revendo evidências de pesquisas

GBK MEDINA, MFJ MINETTO… - Revista Brasileira de …, 2017 - SciELO Brasil
o objetivo deste artigo é fazer uma revisão sistemática de literatura a fim de analisar
produções científicas que abordam as funções executivas (FE) ea dislexia. O método …

[HTML][HTML] Increased resting-state functional connectivity of visual-and cognitive-control brain networks after training in children with reading difficulties

T Horowitz-Kraus, M DiFrancesco, B Kay, Y Wang… - NeuroImage: Clinical, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Reading Acceleration Program, a computerized reading-training program,
increases activation in neural circuits related to reading. We examined the effect of the …

Reading improvement in English-and Hebrew-speaking children with reading difficulties after reading acceleration training

T Horowitz-Kraus, N Cicchino, M Amiel, SK Holland… - Annals of dyslexia, 2014 - Springer
A reading acceleration program known to improve reading fluency in Hebrew-speaking
adults was tested for its effect on children. Eighty-nine Hebrew-and English-speaking …

What happens when children encounter an error?

SFA Smulders, E Soetens, MW van der Molen - Brain and cognition, 2016 - Elsevier
The current study presents the results of two experiments designed to assess developmental
change in post-error slowing (PES) across an age range extending from 5 to 25 years. Both …

Executive functions–based reading training engages the cingulo-opercular and dorsal attention networks

N Taran, R Farah, C Gashri, E Gitman, K Rosch… - Network …, 2023 - direct.mit.edu
The aim of this study was to determine the effect of a computerized executive functions (EFs)–
based reading intervention on neural circuits supporting EFs and visual attention. Seed-to …

Greater reading gain following intervention is associated with low magnetic resonance spectroscopy derived concentrations in the anterior cingulate cortex in children …

KM Cecil, KJ Brunst, T Horowitz-Kraus - Brain research, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Background/Objective The “neural noise” hypothesis suggests that individuals with
dyslexia have high glutamate concentrations associated with their reading challenges …

The role of executive functions in the reading process

T Horowitz-Kraus - Reading fluency: Current insights from neurocognitive …, 2016 - Springer
Abstract “Executive functions”(EF) is an umbrella term for a set of cognitive abilities that are
thought to be controlled by the frontal lobe of the brain. The development of these abilities …