ReviewNPJ science of learning2021
Brain dynamics of (a)typical reading development-a review of longitudinal studies.
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38 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 82 citations in OpenAlex.
- Neurodevelopmental commonalities in cognitive control networks for mathematics and reading in meta-analysis of 3308 participants.Nature communications · 2025Pooled it
- Assessing white matter plasticity in a randomized controlled trial of early literacy training in preschoolers.PloS one · 2025Trial
- From school climate to brain development: What the ABCD study reveals about the educational context of adolescence.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2026Review
- Experience-dependent cortical plasticity in response to formal schooling: Effects on networks for reading and mathematics.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2026Article
- Literacy acquisition and functional connectivity drive the emergence and continued development of the VWFA.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2026Article
- Short Report: Intervention of Reading and Spelling Problems in Children With Co-Occurring Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder and Dyslexia.Dyslexia (Chichester, England) · 2026Article
- Magnetoencephalography Source Connectivity Pipeline Reveals Long-Range Connectivity in Audio-Visual Integration.The European journal of neuroscience · 2026Article
- The balance between stability and plasticity of the visual word form area in dyslexia.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Longitudinal trajectories of brain development from infancy to school age and their relationship with literacy development.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2025Article
- Longitudinal trajectories of brain development from infancy to school age and their relationship to literacy development.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2025Article
- Phonological decoding ability is associated with fiber density of the left arcuate fasciculus longitudinally across reading development.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2025Article
- Efficacy of Transcranial Direct Current Stimulation in Developmental Dyslexia: a scoping review.CoDAS · 2025Article
- Impact of COVID-19 School Closures on White Matter Plasticity in the Reading Network.Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
- Unraveling individual differences in learning potential: A dynamic framework for the case of reading development.Developmental cognitive neuroscience · 2024Review
- Action video games normalise the phonemic awareness in pre-readers at risk for developmental dyslexia.NPJ science of learning · 2024Article
- The reading-attention relationship: Variations in working memory network activity during single word decoding in children with and without dyslexia.Neuropsychologia · 2024Article
- Neonatal brain dynamic functional connectivity in term and preterm infants and its association with early childhood neurodevelopment.Nature communications · 2024Article
- The Brain Economy: Advancing Brain Science to Better Understand the Modern Economy.The Malaysian journal of medical sciences : MJMS · 2024Article
- Cortical Structure in Pre-Readers at Cognitive Risk for Dyslexia: Baseline Differences and Response to Intervention.Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
- Developmental dyscalculia is not associated with atypical brain activation: A univariate fMRI study of arithmetic, magnitude processing, and visuospatial working memory.Human brain mapping · 2023Article
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Abstract
Literacy development is a process rather than a single event and thus should be studied at multiple time points. A longitudinal design employing neuroimaging methods offers the possibility to identify neural changes associated with reading development, and to reveal early markers of dyslexia. The core of this review is a summary of findings from longitudinal neuroimaging studies on typical and atypical reading development. Studies focused on the prediction of reading gains with a single neuroimaging time point complement this review. Evidence from structural studies suggests that reading development results in increased structural integrity and functional specialization of left-hemispheric language areas. Compromised integrity of some of these tracts in children at risk for dyslexia might be compensated by higher anatomical connectivity in the homologous right hemisphere tracts. Regarding function, activation in phonological and audiovisual integration areas and growing sensitivity to print in the ventral occipito-temporal cortex (vOT) seem to be relevant neurodevelopmental markers of successful reading acquisition. Atypical vOT responses at the beginning of reading training and infant auditory brain potentials have been proposed as neuroimaging predictors of dyslexia that can complement behavioral measures. Besides these insights, longitudinal neuroimaging studies on reading and dyslexia are still relatively scarce and small sample sizes raise legitimate concerns about the reliability of the results. This review discusses the challenges of these studies and provides recommendations to improve this research area. Future longitudinal research with larger sample sizes are needed to improve our knowledge of typical and atypical reading neurodevelopment.
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