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Universal brain signature of emerging reading in two contrasting languages
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2019
bioRxiv
pre-print
Despite dissimilarities among scripts, a universal hallmark of literacy in adults is the convergent brain activity for print and speech. Little is known, however, how early it emerges. Here we compare speech and orthographic processing systems in two contrasting languages, Polish and English, in 100 7-year-old children performing identical fMRI tasks. Results show limited language variation, with speech-print convergence evident in left fronto-temporal perisylvian regions. Correlational and
doi:10.1101/2019.12.18.881672
fatcat:u57yizp6h5fnff35j6eky4nkoi