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Children with reading disability (RD) show altered brain responses to word parts (morphemes). This study used fMRI to reveal reduced sensitivity to morphological information in the inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) for RD children.

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Area of Science:

  • Neuroscience
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Linguistics

Background:

  • Behavioral studies indicate impaired morphological awareness in Chinese children with reading disability (RD).
  • Brain alterations underlying this deficit remain largely unknown.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate neural differences in morphological processing between children with RD and typically developing (TD) children.
  • To identify specific brain regions and mechanisms affected by reading disability.

Main Methods:

  • Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was employed to compare brain activity.
  • Participants performed semantic relatedness judgments on word pairs with varying morphemic and semantic congruency.
  • A phonological control task assessed orthographic-phonological congruency.

Main Results:

  • Children with RD exhibited a smaller incongruency effect in the left dorsal posterior and ventral anterior inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) compared to TD children.
  • This suggests reduced sensitivity to morphological information in the RD group.
  • No group differences were observed in the IFG during the phonological control task, indicating a specific semantic-morphological deficit.

Conclusions:

  • Reading disability in children is associated with altered brain function in the IFG during morphological processing.
  • Children with RD may compensate using whole-word strategies, potentially by ignoring morphemic cues.
  • Findings highlight the importance of morphological awareness in reading development and its neural underpinnings.