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  • Developmental Psychology
  • Cognitive Science

Background:

  • Reading proficiency involves complex coordination between distinct cortical regions.
  • White matter tracts are crucial for inter-regional communication essential for reading.
  • Understanding the relationship between white matter integrity and reading components is vital.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the association between white matter microstructure integrity and components of reading proficiency.
  • To compare these associations in school-aged children with typical versus poor phonological decoding skills.

Main Methods:

  • Utilized residualized tract-based spatial statistics (TBSS) methodology.
  • Examined white matter integrity in 49 typically developing children and 27 poor decoders.
  • Assessed accuracy, fluency, and comprehension as components of reading proficiency.

Main Results:

  • White matter integrity measures were differentially associated with reading proficiency components.
  • Reading comprehension correlated with right uncinate fasciculus integrity in both groups.
  • Poor decoders showed additional associations between comprehension and left inferior longitudinal fasciculus, and fluency and right uncinate/left inferior fronto-occipital fasciculi.

Conclusions:

  • Findings highlight specific white matter tract associations with reading comprehension and fluency.
  • The integrity of the uncinate fasciculus is important for reading comprehension across decoding abilities.
  • Results expand knowledge on the neural underpinnings of reading proficiency.