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Individual differences in learning the regularities between orthography, phonology and semantics predict early reading skills
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Siegelman, Noam; Rueckl, Jay G.; Steacy, Laura M.; Frost, Stephen J.; van den Bunt, Mark; Zevin, Jason D.; Seidenberg, Mark S.; Pugh, Kenneth R.; Compton, Donald L.; Morris, Robin D.
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In: J Mem Lang (2020)
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Statistical views of literacy development maintain that proficient reading requires the assimilation of myriad statistical regularities present in the writing system. Indeed, previous studies have tied statistical learning (SL) abilities to reading skills, establishing the existence of a link between the two. However, some issues are currently left unanswered, including questions regarding the underlying bases for these associations as well as the types of statistical regularities actually assimilated by developing readers. Here we present an alternative approach to study the role of SL in literacy development, focusing on individual differences among beginning readers. Instead of using an artificial task to estimate SL abilities, our approach identifies individual differences in children’s reliance on statistical regularities as reflected by actual reading behavior. We specifically focus on individuals’ reliance on regularities in the mapping between print and speech versus associations between print and meaning in a word naming task. We present data from 399 children, showing that those whose oral naming performance is impacted more by print-speech regularities and less by associations between print and meaning have better reading skills. These findings suggest that a key route by which SL mechanisms impact developing reading abilities is via their role in the assimilation of sub-lexical regularities between printed and spoken language -and more generally, in detecting regularities that are more reliable than others. We discuss the implications of our findings to both SL and reading theories.
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URL: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jml.2020.104145
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7373223/
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32694882
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Strength of resting state functional connectivity and local GABA concentrations predict oral reading of real and pseudo-words
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A Model of Phonological Processing, Language, and Reading for Students with Mild Intellectual Disability
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Neurocognitive Predictors of Reading Outcomes for Children With Reading Disabilities
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In: Psychology Faculty Publications (2011)
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Phonological Awareness and Rapid Naming Skills of Children with Reading Disabilities and Children with Reading Disabilities Who Are At Risk for Mathematics Difficulties
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