The brain signature of emerging reading in two contrasting languages
Despite dissimilarities among scripts, a universal hallmark of literacy in skilled readers is the convergent brain activity for print and speech. Little is known, however, whether this differs as a function of grapheme to phoneme transparency in beginning readers. Here we compare speech and orthogra...
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doaj-a5a003702a0b4355bd370ead5105d4792020-12-17T04:47:20ZengElsevierNeuroImage1095-95722021-01-01225117503The brain signature of emerging reading in two contrasting languagesKatarzyna Chyl0Bartosz Kossowski1Shuai Wang2Agnieszka Dębska3Magdalena Łuniewska4Artur Marchewka5Marek Wypych6Mark van den Bunt7William Mencl8Kenneth Pugh9Katarzyna Jednoróg10Laboratory of Language Neurobiology, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, PAS, Warsaw, Poland; Corresponding authors.Laboratory of Brain Imaging, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, PAS, Warsaw, PolandShanghai Key Laboratory of Brain Functional Genomics, East China Normal University, China; CNRS, LPL, Aix Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence, France; Institute of Language, Communication and the Brain, Brain and Language Research Institute, Aix Marseille University, Aix-en-Provence, FranceLaboratory of Language Neurobiology, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, PAS, Warsaw, PolandLaboratory of Language Neurobiology, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, PAS, Warsaw, PolandLaboratory of Brain Imaging, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, PAS, Warsaw, PolandLaboratory of Brain Imaging, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, PAS, Warsaw, PolandHaskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT, USAHaskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT, USAHaskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT, USA; Department of Diagnostic Radiology, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA; Department of Psychology, University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USALaboratory of Language Neurobiology, Nencki Institute of Experimental Biology, PAS, Warsaw, Poland; Corresponding authors.Despite dissimilarities among scripts, a universal hallmark of literacy in skilled readers is the convergent brain activity for print and speech. Little is known, however, whether this differs as a function of grapheme to phoneme transparency in beginning readers. Here we compare speech and orthographic processing circuits in two contrasting languages, Polish and English, in 100 7-year-old children performing fMRI language localizer tasks. Results show limited language variation, with speech-print convergence evident mostly in left frontotemporal perisylvian regions. Correlational and intersect analyses revealed subtle differences in the strength of this coupling in several regions of interest. Specifically, speech-print convergence was higher for transparent Polish than opaque English in the right temporal area, associated with phonological processing. Conversely, speech-print convergence was higher for English than Polish in left fusiform, associated with visual word recognition. We conclude that speech-print convergence is a universal marker of reading even at the beginning of reading acquisition with minor variations that can be explained by the differences in grapheme to phoneme transparency. This finding at the earliest stages of reading acquisition conforms well with claims that reading exhibits a good deal of universality despite writing systems differences.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1053811920309885 |
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Katarzyna Chyl Bartosz Kossowski Shuai Wang Agnieszka Dębska Magdalena Łuniewska Artur Marchewka Marek Wypych Mark van den Bunt William Mencl Kenneth Pugh Katarzyna Jednoróg |
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Katarzyna Chyl Bartosz Kossowski Shuai Wang Agnieszka Dębska Magdalena Łuniewska Artur Marchewka Marek Wypych Mark van den Bunt William Mencl Kenneth Pugh Katarzyna Jednoróg The brain signature of emerging reading in two contrasting languages NeuroImage |
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Katarzyna Chyl Bartosz Kossowski Shuai Wang Agnieszka Dębska Magdalena Łuniewska Artur Marchewka Marek Wypych Mark van den Bunt William Mencl Kenneth Pugh Katarzyna Jednoróg |
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Despite dissimilarities among scripts, a universal hallmark of literacy in skilled readers is the convergent brain activity for print and speech. Little is known, however, whether this differs as a function of grapheme to phoneme transparency in beginning readers. Here we compare speech and orthographic processing circuits in two contrasting languages, Polish and English, in 100 7-year-old children performing fMRI language localizer tasks. Results show limited language variation, with speech-print convergence evident mostly in left frontotemporal perisylvian regions. Correlational and intersect analyses revealed subtle differences in the strength of this coupling in several regions of interest. Specifically, speech-print convergence was higher for transparent Polish than opaque English in the right temporal area, associated with phonological processing. Conversely, speech-print convergence was higher for English than Polish in left fusiform, associated with visual word recognition. We conclude that speech-print convergence is a universal marker of reading even at the beginning of reading acquisition with minor variations that can be explained by the differences in grapheme to phoneme transparency. This finding at the earliest stages of reading acquisition conforms well with claims that reading exhibits a good deal of universality despite writing systems differences. |
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