ArticleScientific studies of reading : the official journal of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading2022
Overnight consolidation of speech sounds predicts decoding ability in skilled adult readers.
Article in Scientific studies of reading : the official journal of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- Memory Consolidation in Adults With and Without Developmental Language Disorder and Dyslexia.International journal for research in learning disabilities · 2026Article
- The Role of Sleep in Memory Consolidation and Reading in Dyslexia.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2025Review
- Neuroimaging Findings for the Overnight Consolidation of Learned Non-native Speech Sounds.Neurobiology of language (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2025Article
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purposePhonological representations are important for reading. In the current work, we examine the relationship between speech-perceptual memory encoding and consolidation to reading ability in skilled adult readers.
methodSeventy-three young adults (age 18-24) were first tested in their word and nonword reading ability, and then trained in the late evening to identify an unfamiliar speech sound contrast (Hindi retroflex-dental). Participants were assessed in their ability to perceive the target contrast immediately before training, after training, and 12 hours later.
resultsWhile perceptual performance on the target at any time point was unassociated with reading ability, overnight changes to the post-training perceptual ability over the 12-hour delay was significantly associated with nonword reading (i.e. decoding) ability, but not real-word reading.
conclusionThese results provide preliminary support for the hypothesis that individual differences in memory processes that update phonological representations following acoustic-phonetic exposure relate to decoding performance, including in adulthood.
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