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- Title
Effects of stimulus difficulty and repetition on printed word identification: an fMRI comparison of nonimpaired and reading-disabled adolescent cohorts.
- Authors
Pugh, Kenneth R; Frost, Stephen J; Sandak, Rebecca; Landi, Nicole; Rueckl, Jay G; Constable, R Todd; Seidenberg, Mark S; Fulbright, Robert K; Katz, Leonard; Mencl, W Einar
- Abstract
Functional neuroimaging studies indicate that a primary marker of specific reading disability (RD) is reduced activation of left hemisphere (LH) posterior regions during performance of reading tasks. However, the severity of this disruption, and the extent to which these LH systems might be available for reading under any circumstances, is unclear at present. Experiment 1 examined the cortical effects of stimulus manipulations (frequency, imageability, consistency) that have known facilitative effects on reading performance for both nonimpaired (NI) and RD readers. Experiment 2 examined stimulus repetition, another facilitative variable, in an additional sample of adolescent NI and RD readers. For NI readers, factors that made words easier to process were associated with relatively reduced activation. For RD readers, facilitative factors resulted in increased activation in these same reading-related sites, suggesting that the LH reading circuitry in adolescent RD is poorly trained but not wholly disrupted.
- Publication
Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 2008, Vol 20, Issue 7, p1146
- ISSN
0898-929X
- Publication type
Journal Article
- DOI
10.1162/jocn.2008.20079