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Apr 2024 • Journal Article • Cerebral Cortex
An executive-functions-based reading training enhances sensory-motor systems integration during reading fluency in children with dyslexia
AbstractThe Simple View of Reading model suggests that intact language processing and word decoding lead to proficient reading comprehension, with recent studies pointing at executive functions as an important component contributing to reading proficiency. Here, we aimed to determine the underlying mechanism(s) for these changes. Participants include 120 8- to 12-year-old
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28 Mar 2024 • Journal Article • Brain Research
Localized alterations in cortical thickness and sulcal depth of the cingulo-opercular network in relation to lower reading fluency skills in children with dyslexia
AbstractThe traditional models of reading development describe how language processing and word decoding contribute to reading comprehension and how impairments in word decoding, a defining feature of dyslexia, affect reading comprehension outcomes. However, these models do not include word and sentence reading (contextual reading) fluency, both of which engage executive
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4 Feb 2024 • Journal Article • Scientific Reports
Parent–child couples display shared neural fingerprints while listening to stories
AbstractNeural fingerprinting is a method to identify individuals from a group of people. Here, we established a new connectome-based identification model and used diffusion maps to show that biological parent–child couples share functional connectivity patterns while listening to stories. These shared fingerprints enabled the identification of children and their biological
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24 Jan 2024 • Journal Article • Brain Connectivity
Language First, Cognition Later: Different Trajectories of Subcomponents of the Future-Reading Network in Processing Narratives from Kindergarten to Adolescence
AbstractNarrative comprehension is a linguistic ability that emerges early in life and has a critical role in language development, reading acquisition, and comprehension. According to the Simple View of Reading model, reading is acquired through word decoding and linguistic comprehension. Here, within and between networks, functional connectivity in several brain networks
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28 Nov 2023 • Journal Article • Policy Insights from the Behavioral and Brain Sciences
Neurobiological Evidence for the Benefit of Interactive Parent–Child Storytelling: Supporting Early Reading Exposure Policies
AbstractThe American Association of Pediatrics recommends reading to young children from birth as a method of exposing children to language and literacy as early as possible. This article describes the known neurobiological support for this recommendation—also addressing the differential effects of parental versus stranger reading as well as other factors, that is, pathological
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29 Oct 2023 • Journal Article • Child Neuropsychology
Executive functions abilities in preschool-age children are negatively related to parental EF, screen-time and positively related to home literacy environment: an EEG study
AbstractEnvironmental factors such as Home Literacy Environment (HLE), screen time, and parental executive functions (EF) may influence the development of the child’s EF. The purpose of this study was to determine the effect of these factors on behavioral and neurobiological measures of EF in 4-year-old children. Electroencephalogram (EEG) data were collected while children
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Sep 2023 • Journal Article • European Journal of Paediatric Neurology
Altered white matter organization and its correlations with executive functioning among adolescents with epilepsy
AbstractDeficits in executive functions (EF) are a common comorbidity among adolescents with epilepsy. EF deficits were previously correlated with altered connectivity of the fronto-parietal and cingulo-opercular neural networks. The current study investigated white matter integrity in adolescents with epilepsy (n = 29) relative to healthy controls (n = 19)
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31 Aug 2023 • Journal Article • Network Neuroscience
Executive functions-based reading training engages the cingulo-opercular and dorsal attention networks
AbstractAbstract. The aim of this study was to determine the effect of a computerized executive functions (EF)-based reading intervention on neural circuits supporting EFs and visual attention. Seed-to-voxel functional connectivity analysis was conducted focusing on large-scale attention system brain networks, during an fMRI reading fluency task. Participants were 8–12 year
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17 Aug 2023 • Journal Article • Cortex
Fluent contextual reading is associated with greater synchronization of the visual and auditory networks, fluent reading and better speed of processing in children with dyslexia
AbstractThe asynchrony theory of dyslexia postulates weaker visual (orthographical processing) and auditory (phonological processing) network synchrony in dyslexic readers. The weaker visual-auditory network synchronization is suggested to contribute to slow processing speed, which supports cognitive control, contributing to single-word reading difficulty and lower reading
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Jul 2023 • Journal Article • The 33rd International Conference on Automated Planning and Scheduling Prague, Czech Republic, July 8-13, 2023
Robofriend: An Adpative Storytelling Robotic Teddy Bear
AbstractIn this paper we describe Robofriend, a robotic teddy bear for telling stories to young children. Robofriend adapts its behavior to keep the childrens’ attention using reinforcement learning.