Tracking the roots of reading ability: white matter volume and integrity correlate with phonological awareness in prereading and early-reading kindergarten children

ZM Saygin, ES Norton, DE Osher… - Journal of …, 2013 - Soc Neuroscience
Developmental dyslexia, an unexplained difficulty in learning to read, has been associated
with alterations in white matter organization as measured by diffusion-weighted imaging. It is …

Development of tract-specific white matter pathways during early reading development in at-risk children and typical controls

Y Wang, MV Mauer, T Raney, B Peysakhovich… - Cerebral …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Developmental dyslexia is a neurodevelopmental disorder with a strong genetic basis.
Previous studies observed white matter alterations in the left posterior brain regions in adults …

White matter alterations in infants at risk for developmental dyslexia

N Langer, B Peysakhovich, J Zuk, M Drottar… - Cerebral …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Developmental dyslexia (DD) is a heritable condition characterized by persistent difficulties
in learning to read. White matter alterations in left-lateralized language areas, particularly in …

White matter morphometric changes uniquely predict children's reading acquisition

CA Myers, M Vandermosten, EA Farris… - Psychological …, 2014 - journals.sagepub.com
This study examined whether variations in brain development between kindergarten and
Grade 3 predicted individual differences in reading ability at Grade 3. Structural MRI …

Imaging brain connectivity in children with diverse reading ability

C Beaulieu, C Plewes, LA Paulson, D Roy, L Snook… - Neuroimage, 2005 - Elsevier
Reading is a complex cognitive skill that requires the coordination of multiple brain regions.
Although functional neuroimaging studies highlight the cortical brain regions associated with …

Development of white matter and reading skills

JD Yeatman, RF Dougherty… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
White matter tissue properties are highly correlated with reading proficiency; we would like
to have a model that relates the dynamics of an individual's white matter development to …

[HTML][HTML] Early dynamics of white matter deficits in children developing dyslexia

J Vanderauwera, J Wouters, M Vandermosten… - Developmental cognitive …, 2017 - Elsevier
Neural anomalies have been demonstrated in dyslexia. Recent studies in pre-readers at risk
for dyslexia and in pre-readers developing poor reading suggest that these anomalies might …

Brain connectivity in non-reading impaired children and children diagnosed with developmental dyslexia

TN Odegard, EA Farris, J Ring, R McColl, J Black - Neuropsychologia, 2009 - Elsevier
Diffusion Tensor Imaging (DTI) was used to investigate the relationship between white
matter and reading abilities in reading impaired and non-reading impaired children …

[HTML][HTML] Structural white matter connectometry of reading and dyslexia

AJ Sihvonen, P Virtala, A Thiede, M Laasonen… - NeuroImage, 2021 - Elsevier
Current views on the neural network subserving reading and its deficits in dyslexia rely
largely on evidence derived from functional neuroimaging studies. However, understanding …

White matter microstructural differences linked to left perisylvian language network in children with dyslexia

SL Rimrodt, DJ Peterson, MB Denckla, WE Kaufmann… - Cortex, 2010 - Elsevier
Studies of dyslexia using diffusion tensor imaging (DTI) have reported fractional anisotropy
(FA) differences in left inferior frontal gyrus (LIFG) and left temporo-parietal white matter …