ArticleBrain and language2021
Automaticity in the reading circuitry.
Article in Brain and language, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 11 papers.
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- The Role of Speech Reading During Visual Word Processing in Hearing Children: A Functional Magnetic Resonance Imaging Study.Journal of speech, language, and hearing research : JSLHR · 2026Article
- Neural signatures of automatic letter-speech sound integration in literate adults.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
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- Reading reshapes stimulus selectivity in the visual word form area.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Temporal Course of Interference Control from Early to Late Young Adulthood: An ERP Study.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Partial overlap between holistic processing of words and Gestalt line stimuli at an early perceptual stage.Memory & cognition · 2022Article
- Individual Differences in Cue Weighting in Sentence Comprehension: An Evaluation Using Approximate Bayesian Computation.Open mind : discoveries in cognitive science · 2022Article
- Development of the visual white matter pathways mediates development of electrophysiological responses in visual cortex.Human brain mapping · 2021Article
- Functional and morphological correlates of developmental dyslexia: A multimodal investigation of the ventral occipitotemporal cortex.Journal of neuroimaging : official journal of the American Society of Neuroimaging · 2021Article
- How Learning to Read Changes the Listening Brain.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Review
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Abstract
Skilled reading requires years of practice associating visual symbols with speech sounds. Over the course of the learning process, this association becomes effortless and automatic. Here we test whether automatic activation of spoken-language circuits in response to visual words is a hallmark of skilled reading. Magnetoencephalography was used to measure word-selective responses under multiple cognitive tasks (N = 42, 7-12 years of age). Even when attention was drawn away from the words by performing an attention-demanding fixation task, strong word-selective responses were found in a language region (i.e., superior temporal gyrus) starting at ~300 ms after stimulus onset. Critically, this automatic word-selective response was indicative of reading skill: the magnitude of word-selective responses correlated with individual reading skill. Our results suggest that automatic recruitment of spoken-language circuits is a hallmark of skilled reading; with practice, reading becomes effortless as the brain learns to automatically translate letters into sounds and meaning.
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