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van der Molen MW, Snellings P, Aravena S, Fraga González G, Zeguers MHT, Verwimp C, Tijms J. Dyslexia, the Amsterdam Way. Behav Sci (Basel) 2024; 14:72. [PMID: 38275355 PMCID: PMC10813111 DOI: 10.3390/bs14010072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/27/2023] [Revised: 12/20/2023] [Accepted: 12/22/2023] [Indexed: 01/27/2024] Open
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The current aim is to illustrate our research on dyslexia conducted at the Developmental Psychology section of the Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, in collaboration with the nationwide IWAL institute for learning disabilities (now RID). The collaborative efforts are institutionalized in the Rudolf Berlin Center. The first series of studies aimed at furthering the understanding of dyslexia using a gamified tool based on an artificial script. Behavioral measures were augmented with diffusion modeling in one study, and indices derived from the electroencephalogram were used in others. Next, we illustrated a series of studies aiming to assess individuals who struggle with reading and spelling using similar research strategies. In one study, we used methodology derived from the machine learning literature. The third series of studies involved intervention targeting the phonics of language. These studies included a network analysis that is now rapidly gaining prominence in the psychopathology literature. Collectively, the studies demonstrate the importance of letter-speech sound mapping and word decoding in the acquisition of reading. It was demonstrated that focusing on these abilities may inform the prediction, classification, and intervention of reading difficulties and their neural underpinnings. A final section examined dyslexia, conceived as a neurobiological disorder. This analysis converged on the conclusion that recent developments in the psychopathology literature inspired by the focus on research domain criteria and network analysis might further the field by staying away from longstanding debates in the dyslexia literature (single vs. a multiple deficit, category vs. dimension, disorder vs. lack of skill).
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- Maurits W. van der Molen
- Developmental Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, 1018 WS Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Rudolf Berlin Center for Learning Disabilities, University of Amsterdam, 1018 WS Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Developmental Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, 1018 WS Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Rudolf Berlin Center for Learning Disabilities, University of Amsterdam, 1018 WS Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Samenwerkingsverband VO Amsterdam-Diemen, Bijlmermeerdreef 1289, 1103 TV Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Developmental Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, 1018 WS Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Rudolf Berlin Center for Learning Disabilities, University of Amsterdam, 1018 WS Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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- Developmental Psychology, Department of Psychology, University of Amsterdam, 1018 WS Amsterdam, The Netherlands
- Rudolf Berlin Center for Learning Disabilities, University of Amsterdam, 1018 WS Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Cirino PT, Salentine C, Farrell A, Barnes MA, Roberts G. Cognitive Predictors of the Overlap of Reading and Math in Middle School. LEARNING AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES 2024; 109:102400. [PMID: 38962323 PMCID: PMC11219023 DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2023.102400] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 07/05/2024]
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Math and reading skills are known to be related, and predictors of each are well researched. What is less understood is the extent to which these predictors, uniquely and collectively, overlap with one another, are differentially important for different academic skills, and account for the overlap of math and reading. We examined 20 potential predictors from four domains (working memory, processing speed, attention, and language) using latent variables and both timed and untimed achievement skill, in a sample (N=212) of at-risk middle schoolers, half of whom were English learners. The predictors accounted for about half of the overlap among achievement skills, suggesting that other factors (e.g., domain specific skills) might also be relevant for the overlap. We also found some differential prediction (language for reading, working memory for math). The present results extend and refine our understanding of the contribution of these cognitive predictors for reading and math.
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Blockmans L, Kievit R, Wouters J, Ghesquière P, Vandermosten M. Dynamics of cognitive predictors during reading acquisition in a sample of children overrepresented for dyslexia risk. Dev Sci 2024; 27:e13412. [PMID: 37219071 DOI: 10.1111/desc.13412] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/24/2022] [Revised: 04/07/2023] [Accepted: 05/09/2023] [Indexed: 05/24/2023]
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Literacy acquisition is a complex process with genetic and environmental factors influencing cognitive and neural processes associated with reading. Previous research identified factors that predict word reading fluency (WRF), including phonological awareness (PA), rapid automatized naming (RAN), and speech-in-noise perception (SPIN). Recent theoretical accounts suggest dynamic interactions between these factors and reading, but direct investigations of such dynamics are lacking. Here, we investigated the dynamic effect of phonological processing and speech perception on WRF. More specifically, we evaluated the dynamic influence of PA, RAN, and SPIN measured in kindergarten (the year prior to formal reading instruction), first grade (the first year of formal reading instruction) and second grade on WRF in second and third grade. We also assessed the effect of an indirect proxy of family risk for reading difficulties using a parental questionnaire (Adult Reading History Questionnaire, ARHQ). We applied path modeling in a longitudinal sample of 162 Dutch-speaking children of whom the majority was selected to have an increased family and/or cognitive risk for dyslexia. We showed that parental ARHQ had a significant effect on WRF, RAN and SPIN, but unexpectedly not on PA. We also found effects of RAN and PA directly on WRF that were limited to first and second grade respectively, in contrast to previous research reporting pre-reading PA effects and prolonged RAN effects throughout reading acquisition. Our study provides important new insights into early prediction of later word reading abilities and into the optimal time window to target a specific reading-related subskill during intervention.
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- Lauren Blockmans
- Research Group ExpORL, Department of Neuroscience, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Donders Institute for Brain, Cognition and Behavior, Radboud University, Nijmegen, The Netherlands
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- Research Group ExpORL, Department of Neuroscience, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Parenting and Special Education Research Unit, Faculty of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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- Research Group ExpORL, Department of Neuroscience, KU Leuven, Leuven, Belgium
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Georgiou GK, Zhang L. Do Performance-Based Measures and Behavioral Ratings of Executive Functioning Complement Each Other in Predicting Reading and Mathematics in Chinese? Behav Sci (Basel) 2023; 13:823. [PMID: 37887473 PMCID: PMC10604200 DOI: 10.3390/bs13100823] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/25/2023] [Revised: 09/19/2023] [Accepted: 10/04/2023] [Indexed: 10/28/2023] Open
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We examined what executive functioning (EF) components predict reading and mathematics within the same study and whether the effects of behavioral ratings of EF overlap or complement those of performance-based measures. One hundred and nine Grade 2 Mandarin-speaking Chinese students from Chengdu, China (55 girls, 54 boys, Mage = 8.15 years), were assessed on measures of EF (planning, inhibition, shifting, and working memory), speed of processing, reading and mathematics. Parents also rated their children's EF skills using the Childhood Executive Functioning Inventory. Results of hierarchical regression analyses showed that only working memory among the performance-based EF measures predicted reading and mathematics. In addition, none of the behavioral ratings of EF made a significant contribution to reading and mathematics after controlling for mother's education and speed of processing. Taken together, these findings suggest that working memory is a domain general predictor of academic achievement, but only when measured with cognitive tasks.
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- George K. Georgiou
- Faculty of Education, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB T6G 2G5, Canada
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- Chengdu Shishi Tianfu High School, Chengdu 610042, China;
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Carioti D, Stucchi NA, Toneatto C, Masia MF, Del Monte M, Stefanelli S, Travellini S, Marcelli A, Tettamanti M, Vernice M, Guasti MT, Berlingeri M. The ReadFree tool for the identification of poor readers: a validation study based on a machine learning approach in monolingual and minority-language children. ANNALS OF DYSLEXIA 2023; 73:356-392. [PMID: 37548832 PMCID: PMC10522748 DOI: 10.1007/s11881-023-00287-3] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/09/2023] [Accepted: 06/26/2023] [Indexed: 08/08/2023]
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In this study, we validated the "ReadFree tool", a computerised battery of 12 visual and auditory tasks developed to identify poor readers also in minority-language children (MLC). We tested the task-specific discriminant power on 142 Italian-monolingual participants (8-13 years old) divided into monolingual poor readers (N = 37) and good readers (N = 105) according to standardised Italian reading tests. The performances at the discriminant tasks of the "ReadFree tool" were entered into a classification and regression tree (CART) model to identify monolingual poor and good readers. The set of classification rules extracted from the CART model were applied to the MLC's performance and the ensuing classification was compared to the one based on standardised Italian reading tests. According to the CART model, auditory go-no/go (regular), RAN and Entrainment100bpm were the most discriminant tasks. When compared with the clinical classification, the CART model accuracy was 86% for the monolinguals and 76% for the MLC. Executive functions and timing skills turned out to have a relevant role in reading. Results of the CART model on MLC support the idea that ad hoc standardised tasks that go beyond reading are needed.
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- Desiré Carioti
- DISTUM, Department of Humanities, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Urbino, Italy
- Psychology Department, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
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- Psychology Department, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
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- DISTUM, Department of Humanities, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Urbino, Italy
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- DISTUM, Department of Humanities, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Urbino, Italy
- Center of Developmental Neuropsychology, AST Pesaro-Urbino, Distretto di Pesaro, Pesaro, Italy
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- DISTUM, Department of Humanities, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Urbino, Italy
- Department of Human Sciences, University of the Republic of San Marino, San Marino, Republic of San Marino
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- DISTUM, Department of Humanities, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Urbino, Italy
- Center of Developmental Neuropsychology, AST Pesaro-Urbino, Distretto di Pesaro, Pesaro, Italy
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- Center of Developmental Neuropsychology, AST Pesaro-Urbino, Distretto di Pesaro, Pesaro, Italy
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- Psychology Department, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
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- DISTUM, Department of Humanities, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Urbino, Italy
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- DISTUM, Department of Humanities, University of Urbino Carlo Bo, Urbino, Italy
- Center of Developmental Neuropsychology, AST Pesaro-Urbino, Distretto di Pesaro, Pesaro, Italy
- NeuroMi, Milan Center for Neuroscience, Milan, Italy
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Sucena A, Garrido C, Marques C, Lousada M. Early predictors of reading success in first grade. Front Psychol 2023; 14:1140823. [PMID: 37645070 PMCID: PMC10461050 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1140823] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/09/2023] [Accepted: 06/27/2023] [Indexed: 08/31/2023] Open
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Reading acquisition is a complex process that can be predicted by several components which, in turn, can be affected by the orthography depth. This study aims to explore the early predictors of (un)success in reading acquisition within an intermediate transparent orthography. At the beginning of the school year, 119 European Portuguese-speaking first graders were assessed regarding (i) sociodemographic variables: mothers' education and socioeconomic status (SES); (ii) cognitive variables: phonological working memory and vocabulary; (iii) reading-related variables: letter-sound knowledge, phonemic awareness, and rapid naming. Results of the three variable clusters were correlated with the final classification obtained in the Portuguese discipline. Specifically, there was a correlation between the Portuguese discipline classification with all reading and cognitive-related variables, with the highest correlations occurring with mother education and letter spelling. A regression analysis was conducted to assess the predictor impact of mother education and letter spelling (variables that correlated stronger with the Portuguese classification) on Portuguese classifications. Letter spelling was the sole significant predictor of the Portuguese classification. Based on these results, a path analysis was run to test whether letter spelling is a mediator of the relationship between the mother's education and the Portuguese classification. The results of the model test yielded a reasonable fit, indicating a relationship between the mother's education and letter spelling, which in turn, relates to the Portuguese classification. The identification of reading predictors in an intermediate-depth orthography such as European Portuguese contributes to more accurate identification of at-risk children.
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- Ana Sucena
- School of Health, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- School of Health, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- School of Health, Polytechnic Institute of Porto, Porto, Portugal
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- CINTESIS.UA@RISE, School of Health Sciences (ESSUA), University of Aveiro, Aveiro, Portugal
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Christoforou C, Theodorou M, Fella A, Papadopoulos TC. RAN-related neural-congruency: a machine learning approach toward the study of the neural underpinnings of naming speed. Front Psychol 2023; 14:1076501. [PMID: 37408955 PMCID: PMC10319123 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1076501] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2022] [Accepted: 05/31/2023] [Indexed: 07/07/2023] Open
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Objective Naming speed, behaviorally measured via the serial Rapid automatized naming (RAN) test, is one of the most examined underlying cognitive factors of reading development and reading difficulties (RD). However, the unconstrained-reading format of serial RAN has made it challenging for traditional EEG analysis methods to extract neural components for studying the neural underpinnings of naming speed. The present study aims to explore a novel approach to isolate neural components during the serial RAN task that are (a) informative of group differences between children with dyslexia (DYS) and chronological age controls (CAC), (b) improve the power of analysis, and (c) are suitable for deciphering the neural underpinnings of naming speed. Methods We propose a novel machine-learning-based algorithm that extracts spatiotemporal neural components during serial RAN, termed RAN-related neural-congruency components. We demonstrate our approach on EEG and eye-tracking recordings from 60 children (30 DYS and 30 CAC), under phonologically or visually similar, and dissimilar control tasks. Results Results reveal significant differences in the RAN-related neural-congruency components between DYS and CAC groups in all four conditions. Conclusion Rapid automatized naming-related neural-congruency components capture the neural activity of cognitive processes associated with naming speed and are informative of group differences between children with dyslexia and typically developing children. Significance We propose the resulting RAN-related neural-components as a methodological framework to facilitate studying the neural underpinnings of naming speed and their association with reading performance and related difficulties.
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- Christoforos Christoforou
- Division of Computer Science, Mathematics and Science, St. John’s University, New York, NY, United States
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- Department of Education, University of Nicosia, Nicosia, Cyprus
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- Department of Psychology and Center for Applied Neuroscience, University of Cyprus, Nicosia, Cyprus
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Zhao J, Yang Q, Cheng C, Wang Z. Cumulative genetic score of KIAA0319 affects reading ability in Chinese children: moderation by parental education and mediation by rapid automatized naming. BEHAVIORAL AND BRAIN FUNCTIONS : BBF 2023; 19:10. [PMID: 37259151 DOI: 10.1186/s12993-023-00212-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/24/2022] [Accepted: 05/19/2023] [Indexed: 06/02/2023]
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KIAA0319, a well-studied candidate gene, has been shown to be associated with reading ability and developmental dyslexia. In the present study, we investigated whether KIAA0319 affects reading ability by interacting with the parental education level and whether rapid automatized naming (RAN), phonological awareness and morphological awareness mediate the relationship between KIAA0319 and reading ability. A total of 2284 Chinese children from primary school grades 3 and 6 participated in this study. Chinese character reading accuracy and word reading fluency were used as measures of reading abilities. The cumulative genetic risk score (CGS) of 13 SNPs in KIAA0319 was calculated. Results revealed interaction effect between CGS of KIAA0319 and parental education level on reading fluency. The interaction effect suggested that individuals with a low CGS of KIAA0319 were better at reading fluency in a positive environment (higher parental educational level) than individuals with a high CGS. Moreover, the interaction effect coincided with the differential susceptibility model. The results of the multiple mediator model revealed that RAN mediates the impact of the genetic cumulative effect of KIAA0319 on reading abilities. These findings provide evidence that KIAA0319 is a risk vulnerability gene that interacts with environmental factor to impact reading abilities and demonstrate the reliability of RAN as an endophenotype between genes and reading associations.
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- Jingjing Zhao
- School of Psychology, Shaanxi Normal University and Shaanxi Provincial Key Research Center of Child Mental and Behavioral Health, Yanta District, 199 South Chang'an Road, Xi'an, 710062, China.
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- School of Psychology, Shaanxi Normal University and Shaanxi Provincial Key Research Center of Child Mental and Behavioral Health, Yanta District, 199 South Chang'an Road, Xi'an, 710062, China
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- School of Psychology, Shaanxi Normal University and Shaanxi Provincial Key Research Center of Child Mental and Behavioral Health, Yanta District, 199 South Chang'an Road, Xi'an, 710062, China
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- School of Psychology, Shaanxi Normal University and Shaanxi Provincial Key Research Center of Child Mental and Behavioral Health, Yanta District, 199 South Chang'an Road, Xi'an, 710062, China.
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Soares AJC, Sassi FC, Fortunato-Tavares T, Andrade CRF, Befi-Lopes DM. How Word/Non-Word Length Influence Reading Acquisition in a Transparent Language: Implications for Children's Literacy and Development. CHILDREN (BASEL, SWITZERLAND) 2022; 10:49. [PMID: 36670600 PMCID: PMC9856289 DOI: 10.3390/children10010049] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/18/2022] [Revised: 12/16/2022] [Accepted: 12/22/2022] [Indexed: 12/28/2022]
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Decoding skills are crucial for literacy development and they tend to be acquired early in transparent languages, such as Brazilian Portuguese. It is essential to better understand which variables may affect the decoding process. In this study, we investigated the processes of decoding as a function of age of children who are exposed to a transparent language. To this end, we examined the effects of grade, stimulus type and stimulus extension on the decoding accuracy of children between the ages of six and 10 years who are monolingual speakers of Brazilian Portuguese. The study included 250 children, enrolled from the first to the fifth grade. A list of words and pseudowords of variable length was created, based on Brazilian Portuguese structure. Children assessment was conducted using the computer program E-prime® which was used to present the stimuli. The stimuli were programmed to appear on the screen in a random order and children were instructed to read them. The results indicate two important moments for decoding: the acquisition and the mastery of decoding skills. Additionally, the results highlight an important effect of the extent and type of stimuli and how it interacts with the school progress. Moreover, data indicate the multifactorial nature of decoding acquisition and the different interactions between variables that can influence this process. We discuss medium- and long-term implications of it, and possible individual and collective actions which can improve this process.
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- Aparecido J. C. Soares
- Department of Physical Therapy, Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, and Occupational Therapy, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua Cipotanea 51, São Paulo 05360-060, Brazil
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- Department of Physical Therapy, Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, and Occupational Therapy, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua Cipotanea 51, São Paulo 05360-060, Brazil
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- Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, Lehman College, City University of New York, New York, NY 10468, USA
- Ph.D. Program in Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences, The Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY 10468, USA
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- Department of Physical Therapy, Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, and Occupational Therapy, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua Cipotanea 51, São Paulo 05360-060, Brazil
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- Department of Physical Therapy, Speech-Language Pathology and Audiology, and Occupational Therapy, Faculdade de Medicina, Universidade de São Paulo, Rua Cipotanea 51, São Paulo 05360-060, Brazil
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Giazitzidou S, Padeliadu S. Contribution of morphological awareness to reading fluency of children with and without dyslexia: evidence from a transparent orthography. ANNALS OF DYSLEXIA 2022; 72:509-531. [PMID: 35907104 DOI: 10.1007/s11881-022-00267-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 06/17/2021] [Accepted: 07/16/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
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The goal of this study was to investigate the contribution of morphological awareness to reading fluency of children with and without dyslexia in a transparent orthography, such as the Greek one. The sample consisted of 256 Greek-speaking children (2nd grade: 32 dyslexic and 105 typical readers, 5th grade: 28 dyslexic and 91 typical readers). Morphological awareness was assessed with three tasks, examining inflectional, derivational, and compounding morphology. Reading fluency was evaluated at word, text, and silent level. The results indicated that dyslexic children both in 2nd and 5th grade face significant difficulties in inflectional, derivational, and compounding morphology compared to their peers. Hierarchical regression analyses revealed that morphological awareness significantly contributed to reading fluency of children with and without dyslexia, after controlling for non-verbal intelligence, vocabulary, and phonological awareness. Among typical readers, results indicated that inflectional, derivational, and compounding morphology had a small but significant effect on word, text, and silent reading fluency in 2nd grade and derivational and inflectional morphology on text and silent reading fluency in 5th grade, after controlling for non-verbal intelligence, vocabulary, and phonological awareness. For dyslexic children, a moderate-to-large effect of inflectional and derivational morphology on text and word reading fluency was restricted to 2nd grade. Overall, morphological skills may play a supportive role in reading fluency of Greek children in first and last elementary grades. On the other hand, for Greek children facing reading problems morphological skills appeared to have a strong role in reading fluency only in first grades. Our study provided some preliminary data for the dyslexics' ability of morphological processing as a scaffolding skill for reading fluency. Implications of these findings for education are discussed.
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- Sophia Giazitzidou
- School of Philosophy and Education, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124, Thessaloniki, Greece.
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- School of Philosophy and Education, Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, 54124, Thessaloniki, Greece
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On the cusp of predictability: Disruption in the typical association between letter and word identification at critical thresholds of RAN and phonological skills. LEARNING AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2022.102166] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Christoforou C, Fella A, Leppänen PHT, Georgiou GK, Papadopoulos TC. Fixation-related potentials in naming speed: A combined EEG and eye-tracking study on children with dyslexia. Clin Neurophysiol 2021; 132:2798-2807. [PMID: 34592558 DOI: 10.1016/j.clinph.2021.08.013] [Citation(s) in RCA: 9] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/06/2021] [Revised: 07/17/2021] [Accepted: 08/08/2021] [Indexed: 11/29/2022]
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OBJECTIVE We combined electroencephalography (EEG) and eye-tracking recordings to examine the underlying factors elicited during the serial Rapid-Automatized Naming (RAN) task that may differentiate between children with dyslexia (DYS) and chronological age controls (CAC). METHODS Thirty children with DYS and 30 CAC (Mage = 9.79 years; age range 7.6 through 12.1 years) performed a set of serial RAN tasks. We extracted fixation-related potentials (FRPs) under phonologically similar (rime-confound) or visually similar (resembling lowercase letters) and dissimilar (non-confounding and discrete uppercase letters, respectively) control tasks. RESULTS Results revealed significant differences in FRP amplitudes between DYS and CAC groups under the phonologically similar and phonologically non-confounding conditions. No differences were observed in the case of the visual conditions. Moreover, regression analysis showed that the average amplitude of the extracted components significantly predicted RAN performance. CONCLUSION FRPs capture neural components during the serial RAN task informative of differences between DYS and CAC and establish a relationship between neurocognitive processes during serial RAN and dyslexia. SIGNIFICANCE We suggest our approach as a methodological model for the concurrent analysis of neurophysiological and eye-gaze data to decipher the role of RAN in reading.
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- Christoforos Christoforou
- Division of Computer Science, Mathematics and Science, St. John's University, New York, United States.
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- School of Education, University of Nicosia, Cyprus.
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- Department of Educational Psychology, University of Alberta, Canada.
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- Department of Psychology & Center for Applied Neuroscience, University of Cyprus, Cyprus.
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Cohen M, Mahé G, Zesiger P, Laganaro M. Does learning to read affect naming skills? Insights from ERPs during letter and picture naming tasks. Neuropsychologia 2021; 157:107861. [PMID: 33894244 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2021.107861] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 10/21/2019] [Revised: 04/14/2021] [Accepted: 04/14/2021] [Indexed: 11/20/2022]
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Numerous studies report that poor readers display low performance in naming tasks. However, very few studies have investigated the development of naming skills along with the development of reading fluency and its variability in typically developing children. In this study, we used electro-encephalographic (EEG) recordings acquired during letter and picture naming tasks to investigate how naming skills develop and, possibly, interact with age and reading level variations. Ninety-three children aged 7-12 years named letters and pictures under an EEG recording, and their reading performance was assessed. ERP results on amplitudes show that age and reading level have similar effects on the entire letter naming time-course. By contrast, age and reading level have different effects on the picture naming time-course, with a specific effect of reading level on the N1 time-interval, associated with visuo-conceptual processing and an effect of both age and reading on later time-windows. On the microstate analysis, age remains the only predictor of the variance in global electric field at scalp for both letter and picture naming indicating that reading skill is not related to a modulation of the mental processes underlying naming.
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- Marjolaine Cohen
- FPSE, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; Department of Special Needs Education, Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.
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- FPSE, University of Geneva, Geneva, Switzerland; Department of Psychology, SCALab (UMR CNRS 9193), University of Lille, Lille, France
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Zhang L, Hong T, Li Y, Wang J, Zhang Y, Shu H. Differences and Similarities in the Contributions of Phonological Awareness, Orthographic Knowledge and Semantic Competence to Reading Fluency in Chinese School-Age Children With and Without Hearing Loss. Front Psychol 2021; 12:649375. [PMID: 33967910 PMCID: PMC8100657 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2021.649375] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/04/2021] [Accepted: 03/15/2021] [Indexed: 11/26/2022] Open
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Compared with the large number of studies on reading of children with hearing loss (HL) in alphabetic languages, there are only a very limited number of studies on reading of Chinese-speaking children with HL. It remains unclear how phonological, orthographic, and semantic skills contribute to reading fluency of Chinese school-age children with HL. The present study explored this issue by examining the performances of children with HL on reading fluency and three linguistic skills compared with matched controls with normal hearing (NH). Specifically, twenty-eight children with HL and 28 chronological-age-matched children with NH were tested on word/sentence reading fluency (WRF/SRF), phonological awareness (PA) which was composed of onset/vowel/lexical tone awareness, orthographic knowledge (OK), and semantic competence (SC) which comprised animal word identification, pseudo-homophone detection, and word segmentation. Results showed that children with HL lagged behind their peers with NH in WRF/SRF and most of the phonological, orthographic, and semantic subskills except onset awareness and pseudo-homophone detection. Furthermore, the significant contributors to WRF differed between the two groups with PA being the significant contributor in the children with NH while OK being the significant contributor in the children with HL. However, the significant contributor to SRF did not differ between the two groups with SC being the only significant contributor. These results revealed not only between-group differences but also similarities in the relative contributions of PA, OK, and SC to reading fluency at both word and sentence levels, which has practical implications for developing better training programs to improve reading for children with HL.
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- Linjun Zhang
- Beijing Advanced Innovation Center for Language Resources and College of Advanced Chinese Training, Beijing Language and Culture University, Beijing, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning and IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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- Department of Applied Psychology, Beijing Normal University-Hong Kong Baptist University United International College, Guangdong, China
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- Peking University Sixth Hospital (Institute of Mental Health), Beijing, China.,NHC Key Laboratory of Mental Health (Peking University) and National Clinical Research Center for Mental Disorders (Peking University Sixth Hospital), Beijing, China
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- Department of Speech-Language-Hearing Sciences and Center for Neurobehavioral Development, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN, United States
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning and IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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Martinez D, Georgiou GK, Inoue T, Falcón A, Parrila R. How does rapid automatized naming influence orthographic knowledge? J Exp Child Psychol 2021; 204:105064. [PMID: 33445106 DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2020.105064] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/11/2020] [Revised: 10/12/2020] [Accepted: 12/01/2020] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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Rapid automatized naming (RAN) is a strong predictor of reading fluency across languages, and some researchers have attributed this to the contribution of RAN to the development of orthographic knowledge, which is predictive of reading fluency. However, to date, it remains unclear whether RAN (alphanumeric and nonalphanumeric) predicts orthographic knowledge (OK) and what skills may mediate their relation. To examine the RAN-OK relations, we assessed 114 Grade 3 Spanish-speaking Mexican children (58 girls; Mage = 7.9 years, SD = 0.3) on RAN (objects and digits), orthographic knowledge (lexical and sublexical; accuracy and response time), speed of processing, multi-element processing, phonemic awareness, and reading fluency. Path analyses showed first that, OK (both lexical and sublexical) partly mediated the effects of RAN on reading fluency. Second, multiple mediation analyses showed an indirect effect of both RAN tasks on lexical and sublexical OK through phonological awareness. In view of Ehri's amalgamation hypothesis and Share's self-teaching hypothesis, our findings suggest that RAN may reflect, in part, the speed with which the phonological representations of letters are accessed and retrieved, which subsequently influences how quickly orthographic representations can be formed and accessed.
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- Dalia Martinez
- Department of Educational Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G5, Canada
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- Department of Educational Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G5, Canada.
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- Department of Psychology, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong
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- Department of Human Communication, University of Morelos, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico
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- Department of Educational Studies, Macquarie University, Sydney NSW 2109, Australia
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Gerst EH, Cirino PT, Macdonald KT, Miciak J, Yoshida H, Woods SP, Gibbs MC. The Structure of Processing Speed in Children and its Impact on Reading. JOURNAL OF COGNITION AND DEVELOPMENT 2021; 22:84-107. [PMID: 33519305 PMCID: PMC7839965 DOI: 10.1080/15248372.2020.1862121] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/22/2022]
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The present study had two aims. First, we set out to evaluate the structure of processing speed in children by comparing five alternative models: two conceptual models (a unitary model, a complexity model) and three methodological models (a stimulus material model, an output response model, and a timing modality model). Second, we then used the resulting models to predict multiple types of reading, a highly important developmental outcome, using other well-known predictors as covariates. Participants were 844 children enrolled in third through fifth grade in urban public elementary schools who received 16 measures of processing speed that varied in the above dimensions. A two-factor complexity model that differentiated between simple and complex processing speed was the preferred model and fit the data well. Both types of PS predicted reading fluency, and complex (but not simple) PS predicted single word reading and comprehension. Results offer insight to the structure of processing speed, its relation to closely related concepts (such as executive function), and provide nuance to the understanding of the way processing speed influences reading.
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Bazen L, van den Boer M, de Jong PF, de Bree EH. Early and late diagnosed dyslexia in secondary school: Performance on literacy skills and cognitive correlates. DYSLEXIA (CHICHESTER, ENGLAND) 2020; 26:359-376. [PMID: 31994792 PMCID: PMC7687086 DOI: 10.1002/dys.1652] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 03/26/2019] [Revised: 12/16/2019] [Accepted: 01/07/2020] [Indexed: 05/17/2023]
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Although a diagnosis of dyslexia is often made during elementary school, severe and persistent literacy difficulties of a considerable group of students are only noticed during secondary school. The question arises whether the literacy(-related) deficits of these late identified students with dyslexia differ from those of early diagnosed students. To address this question, 10th Grade Dutch secondary school students with early (n = 35) and late (n = 19) identified dyslexia and their peers with average to good literacy abilities (n = 24) were compared on literacy skills and underlying cognitive skills. At the group level, both students with an early and late diagnosis performed more poorly than their typical peers, but they did not differ from each other on (pseudo-)word reading, spelling and underlying cognitive correlates (phonemic awareness, rapid automatized naming and visual attention span). The early and late group contained comparable percentages of students performing poorly on most measures. There were, however, more students in the early group who showed deficits in phonemic awareness. Our results indicate that students with early and late diagnosed dyslexia are highly comparable. Suggestions for fitting interventions are discussed.
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- Loes Bazen
- Research Institute of Child Development and EducationUniversity of AmsterdamAmsterdamNetherlands
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- Research Institute of Child Development and EducationUniversity of AmsterdamAmsterdamNetherlands
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- Research Institute of Child Development and EducationUniversity of AmsterdamAmsterdamNetherlands
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- Research Institute of Child Development and EducationUniversity of AmsterdamAmsterdamNetherlands
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Reis A, Araújo S, Morais IS, Faísca L. Reading and reading-related skills in adults with dyslexia from different orthographic systems: a review and meta-analysis. ANNALS OF DYSLEXIA 2020; 70:339-368. [PMID: 32918699 DOI: 10.1007/s11881-020-00205-x] [Citation(s) in RCA: 30] [Impact Index Per Article: 7.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/05/2019] [Accepted: 07/30/2020] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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An individual diagnosed with dyslexia in childhood typically remains dyslexic throughout his/her life. However, the cognitive profile of adults with dyslexia has been less explored than that of children. This meta-analytic study is intended to clarify three questions: (1) To what extent, and in what manner, do adults with reading difficulties (dyslexia) differ from typical adult readers in measures of reading and writing competence and related cognitive skills?; (2) To what extent do speed measures pose a greater challenge than accuracy measures in an adult population that has already had years of print exposure?; and (3) To what extent does orthographic transparency modulate the reading profile of adults with dyslexia? A total of 178 studies comparing adults with dyslexia and matched controls were reviewed. The results showed that adults with dyslexia exhibited poor performance on almost all reading and writing tasks expressed by very large effect sizes (range 1.735 ≤ d ≤ 2.034), except for reading comprehension (d = 0.729). Deficits in reading- and writing-related variables are also present but with a lower expression (range 0.591 ≤ d ≤ 1.295). These difficulties are exacerbated for speed measures, especially for word and pseudoword reading, phonological awareness and orthographic knowledge. Orthographic transparency proved to be a significant moderator of dyslexic deficits in word and pseudoword reading, reading comprehension, spelling and phonological awareness, with the expression of the deficits being weaker on transparent-as opposed to intermediate and opaque-orthographies. Overall, the meta-analysis shows that reading and writing difficulties persist in adulthood and are more pronounced in speed measures. Moreover, symptoms are more severe for reading and writing than they are for measures tapping into the cognitive processes underlying reading skills. Orthographic transparency has a significant effect on the manifestation of dyslexia, with dyslexia symptoms being less marked on transparent orthographies. In addition, phonological awareness seems to be a minor problem in adulthood, especially for transparent orthographies.
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- Alexandra Reis
- Departamento de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal.
- Center for Biomedical Research - CBMR, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal.
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- Faculdade de Psicologia, Universidade de Lisboa, Lisboa, Portugal
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- Departamento de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal
- Center for Biomedical Research - CBMR, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal
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- Departamento de Psicologia e Ciências da Educação, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal
- Center for Biomedical Research - CBMR, Universidade do Algarve, Faro, Portugal
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Vander Stappen C, Dricot L, Van Reybroeck M. RAN training in dyslexia: Behavioral and brain correlates. Neuropsychologia 2020; 146:107566. [DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2020.107566] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/10/2020] [Revised: 07/13/2020] [Accepted: 07/14/2020] [Indexed: 01/18/2023]
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Memisevic H, Dedic A, Biscevic I, Hadzic S, Pasalic A, Malec D. Identifying predictors of reading speed and reading comprehension in Bosnian. APPLIED NEUROPSYCHOLOGY-CHILD 2020; 11:297-306. [PMID: 32873074 DOI: 10.1080/21622965.2020.1815023] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/23/2022]
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The goal of the present study was to examine the predictors of reading speed and reading comprehension in third-grade students from Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH). The sample consisted of 168 third-grade students (86 boys, 82 girls) attending regular schools in Canton Sarajevo, BIH. We examined the effects of phonological awareness (phoneme deletion and rhyming), rapid automatized naming (RAN) of letters and objects, semantic fluency, working memory, and processing speed, on three reading speed tasks and a reading comprehension task. For the reading speed tasks, total amount of explained variance was 33% for reading a text passage, 40% for word reading and 36% for pseudoword reading. The most important predictors of reading speed tasks were phoneme deletion task and RAN: Letters. On the other hand, the model explaining reading comprehension was much less predictive and explained about 11% of variance. Significant predictors of reading comprehension were working memory and processing speed. The results of this study are very informative in creating better models of reading. This in turn will help create better reading intervention programs and potentially reduce the number of children with reading disabilities.
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- Haris Memisevic
- Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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- Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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- Department of Special Education, Herzegovina University, Mostar, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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- Department of Speech and Language Pathology, University of Tuzla, Tuzla, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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- Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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- Faculty of Educational Sciences, University of Sarajevo, Sarajevo, Bosnia and Herzegovina
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Bai J, Li W, Yang Y, Wu J, He W, Xu M. Cognitive Correlates of Reading Fluency in Chinese School-Aged Children. Front Psychol 2020; 11:903. [PMID: 32581901 PMCID: PMC7287183 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00903] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/21/2019] [Accepted: 04/14/2020] [Indexed: 12/24/2022] Open
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Previous studies have showed that reading fluency is strongly associated with cognitive skills, including rapid automatized naming, phonological awareness, orthographical awareness, and so on. However, these studies are largely based on alphabetic languages, and it remains unclear which cognitive factors contribute to the development of reading fluency in logographic Chinese, a language in which the graphic forms map onto morphemes (meaning) rather than phonemes. In Study 1, we tested 179 Chinese children aged 6 to 9 on a set of cognitive tasks as well as for word reading accuracy and sentence reading fluency. The results showed that rapid naming, writing fluency, and phonological awareness significantly predicted reading fluency in both beginning and intermediate readers. In addition, while the contribution of rapid naming and writing fluency increased with grades, the effect of phonological awareness decreased. In Study 2, we examined the role of visual crowding in reading fluency in a subgroup of 86 children and found that visual crowding accounted for the unique variance of individual differences in reading fluency. The findings reflect both universal and language-specific cognitive correlates of reading fluency and provide important implications for potentially effective treatment for individuals suffering from Chinese reading disabilities, particularly in terms of reading fluency.
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- Jing Bai
- College of Psychology and Sociology, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China
- Center for Brain Disorders and Cognitive Science, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China
- Center for Language and Brain, Shenzhen Institute of Neuroscience, Shenzhen, China
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- School of Biomedical Engineering, Health Science Center, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China
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- CAS Key Laboratory of Behavioral Science, Center for Brain Science and Learning Difficulties, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing, China
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- Center for Brain Disorders and Cognitive Science, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China
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- Nanshan Educational Science Research Institute, Shenzhen, China
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- Center for Brain Disorders and Cognitive Science, Shenzhen University, Shenzhen, China
- Center for Language and Brain, Shenzhen Institute of Neuroscience, Shenzhen, China
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Papadopoulos TC, Spanoudis G, Ktisti C, Fella A. Precocious readers: a cognitive or a linguistic advantage? EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PSYCHOLOGY OF EDUCATION 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s10212-020-00470-9] [Citation(s) in RCA: 3] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/01/2022]
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Ober TM, Brooks PJ, Homer BD, Rindskopf D. Executive Functions and Decoding in Children and Adolescents: a Meta-analytic Investigation. EDUCATIONAL PSYCHOLOGY REVIEW 2020. [DOI: 10.1007/s10648-020-09526-0] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/12/2022]
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Peters JL, Bavin EL, Crewther SG. Eye Movements During RAN as an Operationalization of the RAN-Reading "Microcosm". Front Hum Neurosci 2020; 14:67. [PMID: 32194388 PMCID: PMC7063464 DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2020.00067] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 08/22/2019] [Accepted: 02/12/2020] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN) is a strong predictor of reading aloud, though there is little agreement on what underpins RAN or how it relates to reading. Some theorize phonological skills, while others suggest that RAN reflects the “microcosm” of cognitive and attentional processes also required for reading, with more recent research using eye movements in an attempt to study this relationship. In the current study, we aimed to extend previous investigations to identify whether the temporal patterns of eye movements predict RAN and can, therefore, be established as a method to study the cognitive processes underlying RAN that could then be utilized to elucidate the relationship of RAN to reading. A Gazepoint eye tracker was used to record the eye movements of 93 learner readers aged 5–8 years (M age = 7.00) while performing a custom computerized alphabetic RAN task. Text reading accuracy, comprehension and rate; nonverbal intelligence; and phonological awareness abilities were also assessed. Regression analyses showed that, independently of phonological awareness, eye movements [Fixation Count (FC) and Fixation Duration (FD)] measured during RAN tasks were highly reflective of children’s rapid naming performance (92.8%). Both mean FC and mean FD during RAN tasks also predicted text reading accuracy (36.3%), comprehension (31.6%), and rate (36.2%) scores, and in predicting these text reading skills there was a high level of shared variance with RAN performance. In a sub-sample of participants, longer average FDs and counts independently discriminated children with reading difficulties (n = 18; aged 7–9) from neurotypical children matched for age (n = 18), but not from younger neurotypical children matched for reading level (n = 18; aged 5–6). Together, these results suggest that the analysis of eye movements recorded during RAN allows for the operationalization of many of the spatially and temporally-bound cognitive and attentional processes that underpin the RAN, and a step towards elucidating its relationship to reading.
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- Jessica Lee Peters
- Department of Psychology and Counselling, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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- Department of Psychology and Counselling, La Trobe University, Melbourne, VIC, Australia.,Intergenerational Health, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute, Melbourne, VIC, Australia
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Jesus LCD, Martins-Reis VDO, Alves LM. Does self-correction in the Rapid Naming Test reflect cognitive and language performance in teens? REVISTA CEFAC 2020. [DOI: 10.1590/1982-0216/20202219019] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022] Open
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ABSTRACT Objective: to describe the occurrence of self-correction among adolescents in the rapid automatic naming test and the influence of schooling, type of visual stimulation and cognitive and language skills. Methods: 83 typical adolescents from 11 to 16 years old, enrolled from 6th to 9th grade of two public schools in Belo Horizonte participated in the study. The following tests were applied: rapid automatic naming, NEUPSILIN Brief Neuropsychological Assessment Instrument and Boston Naming. During rapid naming, substitutions and self-correction were accounted for. The variation in the number of errors, with and without self-correction, was related to schooling, functions and skills evaluated. Appropriate statistical tests were applied, adopting a significance level lower than 0.05. Results: individuals who made no mistakes had a better performance in attention, executive functions, memory, and vocabulary than those who made. Adolescents who performed self-correction were better at attention than those who did not correct themselves. Non-alphanumeric stimuli presented a higher occurrence of self-correction. Non-alphanumeric and alphanumeric tasks differed in terms of number of errors, both with and without self-correction. Adolescents from the early and late years of middle school differed regarding self-correction in the task of naming letters. Conclusion: self-correction was frequent in the evaluated sample and differentiated the group of adolescents who self-corrected or not, regarding attention, executive functions and vocabulary.
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Hutton JS, Dudley J, Horowitz-Kraus T, DeWitt T, Holland SK. Associations Between Screen-Based Media Use and Brain White Matter Integrity in Preschool-Aged Children. JAMA Pediatr 2020; 174:e193869. [PMID: 31682712 PMCID: PMC6830442 DOI: 10.1001/jamapediatrics.2019.3869] [Citation(s) in RCA: 125] [Impact Index Per Article: 31.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Submit a Manuscript] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 12/18/2022]
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IMPORTANCE The American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) recommends limits on screen-based media use, citing its cognitive-behavioral risks. Screen use by young children is prevalent and increasing, although its implications for brain development are unknown. OBJECTIVE To explore the associations between screen-based media use and integrity of brain white matter tracts supporting language and literacy skills in preschool-aged children. DESIGN, SETTING, AND PARTICIPANTS This cross-sectional study of healthy children aged 3 to 5 years (n = 47) was conducted from August 2017 to November 2018. Participants were recruited at a US children's hospital and community primary care clinics. EXPOSURES Children completed cognitive testing followed by diffusion tensor imaging (DTI), and their parent completed a ScreenQ survey. MAIN OUTCOMES AND MEASURES ScreenQ is a 15-item measure of screen-based media use reflecting the domains in the AAP recommendations: access to screens, frequency of use, content viewed, and coviewing. Higher scores reflect greater use. ScreenQ scores were applied as the independent variable in 3 multiple linear regression models, with scores in 3 standardized assessments as the dependent variable, controlling for child age and household income: Comprehensive Test of Phonological Processing, Second Edition (CTOPP-2; Rapid Object Naming subtest); Expressive Vocabulary Test, Second Edition (EVT-2; expressive language); and Get Ready to Read! (GRTR; emergent literacy skills). The DTI measures included fractional anisotropy (FA) and radial diffusivity (RD), which estimated microstructural organization and myelination of white matter tracts. ScreenQ was applied as a factor associated with FA and RD in whole-brain regression analyses, which were then narrowed to 3 left-sided tracts supporting language and emergent literacy abilities. RESULTS Of the 69 children recruited, 47 (among whom 27 [57%] were girls, and the mean [SD] age was 54.3 [7.5] months) completed DTI. Mean (SD; range) ScreenQ score was 8.6 (4.8; 1-19) points. Mean (SD; range) CTOPP-2 score was 9.4 (3.3; 2-15) points, EVT-2 score was 113.1 (16.6; 88-144) points, and GRTR score was 19.0 (5.9; 5-25) points. ScreenQ scores were negatively correlated with EVT-2 (F2,43 = 5.14; R2 = 0.19; P < .01), CTOPP-2 (F2,35 = 6.64; R2 = 0.28; P < .01), and GRTR (F2,44 = 17.08; R2 = 0.44; P < .01) scores, controlling for child age. Higher ScreenQ scores were correlated with lower FA and higher RD in tracts involved with language, executive function, and emergent literacy abilities (P < .05, familywise error-corrected), controlling for child age and household income. CONCLUSIONS AND RELEVANCE This study found an association between increased screen-based media use, compared with the AAP guidelines, and lower microstructural integrity of brain white matter tracts supporting language and emergent literacy skills in prekindergarten children. The findings suggest further study is needed, particularly during the rapid early stages of brain development.
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- John S. Hutton
- Division of General and Community Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio,Reading and Literacy Discovery Center, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
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- Reading and Literacy Discovery Center, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio,Pediatric Neuroimaging Research Consortium, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio
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- Division of General and Community Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio,Reading and Literacy Discovery Center, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio,Pediatric Neuroimaging Research Consortium, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio,Educational Neuroimaging Center, Biomedical Engineering, Technion, Israel
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- Division of General and Community Pediatrics, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio,Reading and Literacy Discovery Center, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
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- Reading and Literacy Discovery Center, Cincinnati Children’s Hospital Medical Center, Cincinnati, Ohio,Pediatric Neuroimaging Research Consortium, Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center and University of Cincinnati College of Medicine, Cincinnati, Ohio,Medpace Inc, Cincinnati, Ohio
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Khodadoust M, Mohamadi R, Janani L, Javadi Z, Sadeghi A. The effect of phonological awareness on rapid automatized naming. Med J Islam Repub Iran 2019; 33:32. [PMID: 31456956 PMCID: PMC6708104 DOI: 10.34171/mjiri.33.32] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/10/2017] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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Background: Phonological awareness (PA) is a fundamental predictor of reading disability. However, researches on reading have indicated that PA assessment alone is not sufficient to prevent reading problems. Rapid automatized naming (RAN) has been suggested as another influential factor in reading deficits independent of PA. This study investigated the impact of phonological awareness on rapid automatized naming.
Methods: This was a randomized clinical trial study in which 62 Persian monolingual first graders were recruited from 3 schools using convenience sampling. Inclusion criteria were lack of deficits with sensory-motor skills and knowledge of the Persian alphabets. Measures of PA and RAN were utilized. The participants were randomly assigned into either the intervention or the control group. The intervention group was divided into small groups of 4-6 children who received thirty 40-minute training sessions in PA. T test, Mann-Whitney, and Wilcoxon tests were used for data analysis.
Results: The results revealed that the RAN time was significantly reduced (p≤0.001), with a significant increase in PA scores (p≤0.001). In addition, there was a significant inverse relationship between some of the measures of the phonological awareness subtests and rapid automatized naming (eg, phonemic blending & RAN (numbers): ρ=-0.52 with p≤0.001).
Conclusion: The findings showed that in the initial assessment, PA and RAN had a significant relationship, but RAN could be significantly improved by PA training.
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- Mahdi Khodadoust
- School of Rehabilitation, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran.,Neuroscience Research Center, Institute of Neuropharmacology, Kerman University of Medical Sciences, Kerman, Iran
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- School of Rehabilitation, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- Department of Biostatistics, School of Public Health, Iran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- School of Paramedical Sciences, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, Iran
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- School of Teacher Education, University of Canterbury, New Zealand
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Wasserstein D, Lipka O. Predictive Examination of Phonological Awareness Among Hebrew-Speaking Kindergarten Children. Front Psychol 2019; 10:1809. [PMID: 31555160 PMCID: PMC6724554 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01809] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/07/2019] [Accepted: 07/22/2019] [Indexed: 11/24/2022] Open
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The purpose of this study was to examine the development of phonological awareness (PA) skills among Hebrew-speaking kindergarten children. Specifically, the study examines the effects of cognitive, early literacy, and language skills to PA among Hebrew-speaking children at the middle (Early K) and end (End K) of kindergarten, and the contribution of various literacy and cognitive skills measured from the early kindergarten stage to the subsequent development of PA. Participants were 41 native Hebrew-speaking children (28 boys), ages 5-6, who were recruited from two kindergarten classrooms. A battery of cognitive, early literacy, and language measures was administered and ten PA skills were examined extensively. The results demonstrated the rapid growth of PA skills from Early K to End K. The participants were significantly better at manipulations at the syllable level, as compared to phonemes or consonants. Furthermore, deletion of a final consonant was found to be easier for them than deletion of an initial consonant. This finding emphasizes the body-coda segmentation tendency, which characterizes the Hebrew language structure. Strong-moderate positive correlations were found between PA and both letter naming and executive functioning at Early K. A strong correlation between letter naming and PA was found at End K. Regression analyses demonstrated that letter naming and executive functioning at Early K were the most significant predictors of PA at Early K, and that letter naming was the most significant predictor at End K. These findings highlight both universal and language-specific features of phonological awareness.
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- Dorin Wasserstein
- Department of Learning Disabilities, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Learning Disabilities, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
- Edmond J. Safra Brain Research Center, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
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Onochie-Quintanilla E, Defior SA, Simpson IC. RAN and orthographic processing: What can syllable frequency tell us about this relationship? J Exp Child Psychol 2019; 182:1-17. [DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2019.01.002] [Citation(s) in RCA: 2] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/30/2018] [Revised: 12/29/2018] [Accepted: 01/04/2019] [Indexed: 11/27/2022]
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Lima M, da Rosa Piccolo L, Puntel Basso F, Júlio-Costa A, Lopes-Silva JB, Haase VG, Salles JF. Neuropsychological and environmental predictors of reading performance in Brazilian children. APPLIED NEUROPSYCHOLOGY. CHILD 2019; 9:259-270. [PMID: 30884971 DOI: 10.1080/21622965.2019.1575737] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/27/2022]
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Word-level reading is strongly associated with phonological processing. The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of cognitive and environmental variables on word reading performance. Our sample consisted of 185 fourth-grade students. Linear regression analyses were used to investigate the role of the following variables as potential predictors of word reading accuracy and fluency: phonological processing (phonological awareness, rapid automatized naming, and phonological memory); verbal fluency; working memory; socioeconomic status and an indicator of school quality (IDEB) in Brazil. Phonological awareness and rapid automatic naming were the best predictors of reading, supporting the role of phonological processing as a key contributor to the lexical aspects of reading, beyond the early years of literacy acquisition. Environmental variables were significant predictors of irregular word reading (socioeconomic status) and fluency (IDEB), corroborating multicomponent models of reading performance. The present findings demonstrate the complex interplay of factors underlying reading performance and highlight the importance of a multidimensional approach to the study of reading.
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- Melina Lima
- Institute of Psychology, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
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- Institute of Psychology, Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul, Porto Alegre, Brazil
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- Department of Psychology, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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- Department of Psychology, Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil
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Eloranta AK, Närhi VM, Eklund KM, Ahonen TPS, Aro TI. Resolving reading disability-Childhood predictors and adult-age outcomes. DYSLEXIA (CHICHESTER, ENGLAND) 2019; 25:20-37. [PMID: 30548736 DOI: 10.1002/dys.1605] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/17/2017] [Revised: 11/12/2018] [Accepted: 11/15/2018] [Indexed: 05/21/2023]
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We examined frequency of adult-age reading disability (RD) and its childhood predictors among 48 adults (20 to 39 years) with documented childhood RD, and contrasted their cognitive skills, education, and employment with 37 matched controls. Among individuals with childhood RD, more than half had improved in their reading fluency to the level where the set criterion for adult-age RD was not met anymore. More fluent rapid naming, less severe childhood RD, and multiple support providers in childhood together predicted improvement of reading fluency. More fluent naming differentiated the childhood RD participants whose reading fluency had improved by adult-age from those participants whose RD persisted to adult-age. All the individuals with childhood RD performed weaker than the controls in adult-age working memory, processing speed, and verbal skills. Educational level among both RD groups was lower than that among the controls. Unemployment of individuals with persistent adult-age RD (31.6%) was higher than that of individuals with improved adult-age RD (13.8%) or that of the controls (8.1%). According to our findings, rapid naming is one evident factor differentiating individuals with persisted RD from those with ameliorated reading fluency. Also, better adult-age reading fluency has significance for adult-age employment among individuals with childhood RD.
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- Anna-Kaija Eloranta
- Niilo Mäki Institute, Jyväskylä, Finland
- Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Niilo Mäki Institute, Jyväskylä, Finland
- Department of Education, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Niilo Mäki Institute, Jyväskylä, Finland
- Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
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- Niilo Mäki Institute, Jyväskylä, Finland
- Department of Psychology, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland
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Shechter A, Lipka O, Katzir T. Predictive Models of Word Reading Fluency in Hebrew. Front Psychol 2018; 9:1882. [PMID: 30356726 PMCID: PMC6189333 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01882] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/26/2018] [Accepted: 09/13/2018] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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This study examined a multi-componential approach to reading fluency in first and third grade Hebrew speaking children. Measures of naming speed, phonological awareness (PA), morphological awareness (MA), syntax awareness, and vocabulary were administered to first (N = 68) and third (N = 67) graders. Hierarchical regression models revealed that in both grades, naming speed accounted for most of the variance in each model. However, while in the first grade, word reading fluency was also predicted by vocabulary, in the third grade, both PA and MA were significant additional predictors. Predictive models of word reading fluency in Hebrew and applied implications are proposed.
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- Adi Shechter
- Department of Learning Disabilities, Edmond J. Safra Brain Research Center, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Learning Disabilities, Edmond J. Safra Brain Research Center, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
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- Department of Learning Disabilities, Edmond J. Safra Brain Research Center, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.,Department of Special Education, Edmond J. Safra Brain Research Center, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel
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van Setten ERH, Hakvoort BE, van der Leij A, Maurits NM, Maassen BAM. Predictors for grade 6 reading in children at familial risk of dyslexia. ANNALS OF DYSLEXIA 2018; 68:181-202. [PMID: 29998432 PMCID: PMC6209008 DOI: 10.1007/s11881-018-0162-1] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 07/26/2017] [Accepted: 06/22/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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The present study investigates whether grade 6 reading outcomes, reading fluency, and reading comprehension can be predicted by grade 3 reading fluency, familial risk of dyslexia (FR), and grade 3 reading related skills: rapid automatized naming (RAN), phonological awareness (PA), and vocabulary. In a sample of 150 children, of whom 83 had a parent with dyslexia, correlation and regression analyses were performed. FR, measured on a continuous scale, was by itself related to all outcomes. However, FR did not explain any variance on top of grade 3 reading fluency. Grade 3 reading fluency strongly predicted grade 6 reading fluency and was also related to reading comprehension. RAN improved the prediction of grade 6 reading fluency, though the additional explained variance was small. Vocabulary and PA fully explained the variance that grade 3 reading fluency explained in grade 6 reading comprehension. Vocabulary explained a substantial amount of variance in grade 6 reading comprehension making it an interesting clinical target. As we used continuous measures of reading fluency and FR, our findings are not biased by distinct diagnostic criteria.
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- Ellie R H van Setten
- Center for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG), Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen, Oude Kijk in 't Jatstraat 26, 9712 EK, Groningen, the Netherlands.
- Research School of Behavioural and Cognitive Neurosciences (BCN), University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.
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- Research Institute of Child Development and Education, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Research Institute of Child Development and Education, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Research School of Behavioural and Cognitive Neurosciences (BCN), University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
- Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Center for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG), Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen, Oude Kijk in 't Jatstraat 26, 9712 EK, Groningen, the Netherlands
- Research School of Behavioural and Cognitive Neurosciences (BCN), University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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Zhou W, Xia Z, Georgiou GK, Shu H. The Distinct Roles of Dorsal and Ventral Visual Systems in Naming of Chinese Characters. Neuroscience 2018; 390:256-264. [PMID: 30176323 DOI: 10.1016/j.neuroscience.2018.08.024] [Citation(s) in RCA: 7] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/26/2018] [Revised: 08/20/2018] [Accepted: 08/23/2018] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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We aimed to investigate the role of dorsal and ventral visual systems in rapid naming of simple Chinese characters. Twenty college students (10 female; Mage = 22.5 years) were required to covertly read a character- and a cross-matrix during an fMRI experiment. A basic prosaccade and a prosaccade-naming task were also performed to confirm the functional significance of the findings. The results of whole brain analysis showed that both dorsal and ventral visual systems were activated in the character-matrix reading. The cross-matrix scanning elicited weaker activation in the left middle frontal gyrus, superior temporal gyrus, and ventral occipitotemporal cortex. Next, whereas both top-down and bottom-up effective connectivities (ECs) were found between these two systems in the character-matrix reading, only top-down ECs were observed in the cross-matrix scanning. Moreover, in the character-matrix reading, we found a negative correlation between the reaction time of naming in the prosaccade-naming task and the EC strength from visual word form area to superior temporal gyrus and a positive correlation between the reaction time in the basic prosaccade task and the EC strength from middle frontal gyrus to intraparietal sulcus. The cross-matrix scanning did not show any brain-behavior relationship. These results suggest that while the dorsal visual system is mainly engaged in eye-movement control, the ventral system is associated more with orthographic processing and orthography-phonology mapping.
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- Wei Zhou
- Beijing Key Lab of Learning and Cognition, School of Psychology, Capital Normal University, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning and IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning and IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, China.
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Georgiou GK, Ghazyani R, Parrila R. Are RAN deficits in university students with dyslexia due to defective lexical access, impaired anchoring, or slow articulation? ANNALS OF DYSLEXIA 2018; 68:85-103. [PMID: 29511958 DOI: 10.1007/s11881-018-0156-z] [Citation(s) in RCA: 10] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/28/2017] [Accepted: 01/18/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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The purpose of this study was to examine different hypotheses in relation to RAN deficits in dyslexia. Thirty university students with dyslexia and 32 chronological-age controls were assessed on RAN Digits and Colors as well as on two versions of RAN Letters and Objects (one with five items repeated 16 times and one with 20 items repeated four times). In addition, participants were tested on discrete letter and object naming, phonological awareness, orthographic knowledge, and speed of processing, and the RAN Letters and Objects total times were partitioned into pause times and articulation times. Results showed first that the dyslexia group was slower than the control group on all RAN tasks and the differences remained significant after controlling for discrete naming time. Second, both groups were slower in the large item set condition (20 × 4) than in the small set condition (5 × 16). Third, the dyslexia group was slower than the control group in both the pause and the articulation times. Although none of the processing skills was sufficient on its own to eliminate group differences in RAN Letters components, phonological awareness, and orthographic processing were sufficient on their own to eliminate group differences in the RAN Objects pause time. Taken together, our findings suggest that the deficits in RAN are not due to impaired anchoring, but rather due to subtle impairments in lexical access (specific to alphanumeric RAN), serial processing, and articulation.
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- George K Georgiou
- Department of Educational Psychology, 6-102 Education North, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2G5, Canada.
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- Department of Educational Psychology, 6-102 Education North, University of Alberta, Edmonton, AB, T6G 2G5, Canada
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- Department of Educational Studies, Macquarie University, Sydney, New South Wales, 2109, Australia
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Outón Oviedo P, Castro LL, Priegue D. Nominación rápida y automática en alumnos de cuarto de Educación Primaria. REVISTA DE ESTUDIOS E INVESTIGACIÓN EN PSICOLOGÍA Y EDUCACIÓN 2017. [DOI: 10.17979/reipe.2017.0.11.2440] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/05/2022] Open
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En este trabajo se aplicó una prueba de nominación a 25 alumnos disléxicos y 25 lectores normales de 4º de Educación Primaria. La prueba incluye elementos alfanuméricos, elementos de un mismo campo semántico, familiares y no familiares, y elemento de distintas categorías. Se encontró que los disléxicos son más lentos y más inexactos en la nominación de los diferentes elementos, siendo los estímulos menos frecuentes y los pertenecientes a campos semánticos diferenes donde se observan mayores diferencias. Estos resultados coinciden con los encontrados en otros estudios.
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van Setten ERH, Tops W, Hakvoort BE, van der Leij A, Maurits NM, Maassen BAM. L1 and L2 reading skills in Dutch adolescents with a familial risk of dyslexia. PeerJ 2017; 5:e3895. [PMID: 29062600 PMCID: PMC5647862 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.3895] [Citation(s) in RCA: 8] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.1] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/25/2017] [Accepted: 09/15/2017] [Indexed: 11/20/2022] Open
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BACKGROUND The present study investigated differences in reading and spelling outcomes in Dutch and English as a second language (ESL) in adolescents with a high familial risk of dyslexia, of whom some have developed dyslexia (HRDys) while others have not (HRnonDys), in comparison to a low familial risk control group without dyslexia (LRnonDys). This allowed us to investigate the persistence of dyslexia in the first language (L1) and the effect of dyslexia on the second language (L2), which has, in this case, a lower orthographic transparency. Furthermore, the inclusion of the HRnonDys group allowed us to investigate the continuity of the familial risk of dyslexia, as previous studies observed that the HRnonDys group often scores in between the HRDys and LRnonDys group, and whether these readers without reading deficits in Dutch, have more reading difficulties in ESL. METHODS The data of three groups of adolescents were analyzed; 27 LRnonDys, 25 HRdys 25 HRnonDys. The mean age was 14;1 years; months, and 37 were male. All were native speakers of Dutch, attended regular secondary education (grade 7-10), and were non-native speakers of English. Using MANOVA the groups were compared on Dutch and English word reading fluency (WRF), spelling and vocabulary, Dutch pseudoword and loanword reading fluency, phonological awareness (PA), rapid automatized naming (RAN), and verbal short term and working memory. A repeated measures ANOVA was used to compare English and Dutch WRF, spelling and vocabulary directly within the three groups. RESULTS The analyses revealed that the HRDys group had a deficit in both reading and spelling in Dutch and ESL. They also performed poorer than the LRnonDys group on all other measures. Effect sizes were especially large for pseudoword reading and the reaction times during the PA task. The HRnonDys group scored generally poorer than the LRnonDys group but this difference was only significant for Dutch pseudoword reading, PA reaction times and verbal short term memory. In general the HRDys and HRnonDys group scored similar in Dutch and English, except for English WRF where the HRDys group scored slightly better than expected based on their Dutch WRF. DISCUSSION There was a high persistence of dyslexia. Adolescents with dyslexia had large impairments in reading and spelling, and reading related measures, both in Dutch and ESL. Despite high inter-individual differences, an overall three-step pattern was observed. Adolescents in the HRnonDys group scored in between the HRDys and LRnonDys group, supporting the polygenetic origin of dyslexia and the continuity of the familial risk of dyslexia. The lower orthographic transparency did not have a negative effect on L2 reading, spelling and vocabulary, both in the HRnonDys and HRDys group. The latter group performed slightly better than expected in L2, which may be a result of the massive exposure to English and high motivation to use English by adolescents.
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- Ellie R H van Setten
- Center for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG), Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.,Research School of Behavioural and Cognitive Neurosciences (BCN), University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Center for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG), Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Research Institute of Child Development and Education, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Research Institute of Child Development and Education, University of Amsterdam, Amsterdam, the Netherlands
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- Research School of Behavioural and Cognitive Neurosciences (BCN), University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.,Department of Neurology, University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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- Center for Language and Cognition Groningen (CLCG), Faculty of Arts, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands.,Research School of Behavioural and Cognitive Neurosciences (BCN), University Medical Center Groningen, University of Groningen, Groningen, the Netherlands
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Areces D, García T, González-Castro P, Alvarez-García D, Rodríguez C. Naming speed as a predictive diagnostic measure in reading and attentional problems. Child Neuropsychol 2017; 24:1115-1128. [PMID: 29050518 DOI: 10.1080/09297049.2017.1391191] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/18/2022]
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This study aimed to describe and compare naming speed abilities in children diagnosed with either Reading Learning Difficulties (RLD) or Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), or comorbidity for both (ADHD+RLD). To examine the explanatory power of naming speed and ADHD symptomatology in predicting group associations (while controlling for gender and age), the "Rapid Automatized Naming and Rapid Alternating Stimulus Tests" (RAN/RAS) were utilized. A sample of 101 children (age range = 5-16 years) was divided into four groups: RLD (n = 14), ADHD (n = 28), comorbid (n = 19), and control (n = 40). There were statistically significant differences in RAN/RAS results among the diagnostic groups. Moreover, discriminant analysis revealed that naming speed tasks significantly predicted reading and attentional problems, especially at earlier ages. These results demonstrate the potential usefulness of RAN/RAS in the diagnosis of reading and attentional problems, particularly if the children are aged from 5 to 9.
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- Débora Areces
- a Débora Areces, Faculty of Psychology , University of Oviedo (Spain) , Oviedo , Asturias , Spain
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- a Débora Areces, Faculty of Psychology , University of Oviedo (Spain) , Oviedo , Asturias , Spain
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- a Débora Areces, Faculty of Psychology , University of Oviedo (Spain) , Oviedo , Asturias , Spain
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- a Débora Areces, Faculty of Psychology , University of Oviedo (Spain) , Oviedo , Asturias , Spain
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- a Débora Areces, Faculty of Psychology , University of Oviedo (Spain) , Oviedo , Asturias , Spain
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Hornung C, Martin R, Fayol M. General and Specific Contributions of RAN to Reading and Arithmetic Fluency in First Graders: A Longitudinal Latent Variable Approach. Front Psychol 2017; 8:1746. [PMID: 29056920 PMCID: PMC5635811 DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.01746] [Citation(s) in RCA: 12] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Download PDF] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2017] [Accepted: 09/21/2017] [Indexed: 11/13/2022] Open
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In the present study, we opted for a longitudinal design and examined rapid automatized naming (RAN) performance from two perspectives. In a first step, we examined the structure of RAN performance from a general cognitive perspective. We investigated whether rapid naming measures (e.g., digit RAN and color RAN) reflect a mainly domain-general factor or domain-specific factors. In a second step, we examined how the best fitting RAN model was related to reading and arithmetic outcomes, assessed several months later. Finally in a third step we took a clinical perspective and investigated specific contributions of RAN measures to reading and arithmetic outcomes. While RAN has emerged as a promising predictor of reading, the relationship between RAN and arithmetic has been less examined in the past. Hundred and twenty-two first graders completed seven RAN tasks, each comprising visually familiar stimuli such as digits, vowels, consonants, dice, finger-numeral configurations, objects, and colors. Four months later the same children completed a range of reading and arithmetic tasks. From a general descriptive perspective, structural equation modeling supports a one-dimensional RAN factor in 6- to -7-year-old children. However, from a clinical perspective, our findings emphasize the specific contributions of RANs. Interestingly, alphanumeric RANs (i.e., vowel RAN) were most promising when predicting reading skills and number-specific RANs (i.e., finger-numeral configuration RAN) were most promising when predicting arithmetic fluency. The implications for clinical and educational practices will be discussed.
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- Caroline Hornung
- Luxembourg Center for Educational Testing, Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education, University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
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- Luxembourg Center for Educational Testing, Faculty of Language and Literature, Humanities, Arts and Education, University of Luxembourg, Esch-sur-Alzette, Luxembourg
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- UMR 6024, Laboratoire de Psychologie Sociale et Cognitive, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Clermont-Ferrand, France.,University of Auvergne, Clermont-Ferrand, France
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Hornung C, Martin R, Fayol M. The power of vowels: Contributions of vowel, consonant and digit RAN to clinical approaches in reading development. LEARNING AND INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/j.lindif.2017.06.006] [Citation(s) in RCA: 4] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/28/2022]
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Cui J, Georgiou GK, Zhang Y, Li Y, Shu H, Zhou X. Examining the relationship between rapid automatized naming and arithmetic fluency in Chinese kindergarten children. J Exp Child Psychol 2016; 154:146-163. [PMID: 27883911 DOI: 10.1016/j.jecp.2016.10.008] [Citation(s) in RCA: 44] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.5] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/05/2016] [Revised: 09/01/2016] [Accepted: 10/22/2016] [Indexed: 11/25/2022]
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Rapid automatized naming (RAN) has been found to predict mathematics. However, the nature of their relationship remains unclear. Thus, the purpose of this study was twofold: (a) to examine how RAN (numeric and non-numeric) predicts a subdomain of mathematics (arithmetic fluency) and (b) to examine what processing skills may account for the RAN-arithmetic fluency relationship. A total of 160 third-year kindergarten Chinese children (83 boys and 77 girls, mean age=5.11years) were assessed on RAN (colors, objects, digits, and dice), nonverbal IQ, visual-verbal paired associate learning, phonological awareness, short-term memory, speed of processing, approximate number system acuity, and arithmetic fluency (addition and subtraction). The results indicated first that RAN was a significant correlate of arithmetic fluency and the correlations did not vary as a function of type of RAN or arithmetic fluency tasks. In addition, RAN continued to predict addition and subtraction fluency even after controlling for all other processing skills. Taken together, these findings challenge the existing theoretical accounts of the RAN-arithmetic fluency relationship and suggest that, similar to reading fluency, multiple processes underlie the RAN-arithmetic fluency relationship.
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- Jiaxin Cui
- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning & IDG/McGovern School of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, People's Republic of China; Advanced Innovation Center for Future Education & Siegler Center for Innovative Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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- Department of Educational Psychology, University of Alberta, Edmonton, Alberta T6G 2G5, Canada.
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- School of Psychology, Liaoning Normal University, Dalian 116029, China
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- School of Psychology, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning & IDG/McGovern School of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, People's Republic of China
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- State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning & IDG/McGovern School of Brain and Cognitive Sciences, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, People's Republic of China; Advanced Innovation Center for Future Education & Siegler Center for Innovative Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
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