Reading and Literacy Development

Semantic Update as a Predictor of Reading Time: Moving Beyond Word-Level Surprisal

This study shows semantic update predicts reading time better than lexical surprisal, especially for content words, highlighting its role in reading behavior.

Onset-Rime Orthographic Representations in Early Literacy Development: A Neural Link Between Spelling and Reading

This study shows that neural sensitivity to onset-rime orthographic structures links spelling and reading in early literacy development.

Neural Evidence of Early Sensitivity to Text in Pre-reading Toddlers

The paper investigates neural sensitivity to text in pre-reading toddlers using fNIRS and finds distinct brain activity patterns for text versus non-text stimuli.

Towards a Brain-Computer Interface (BCI) for Improving Phonological Processing in Developmental Dyslexia: An Exploratory Study

This study presents an EEG-BCI for improving phonological processing in adults with and without dyslexia, finding significant improvements in reading skills associated with BCI learning.

Goals Drive Adaptive Analysis of Linguistic Features During Reading

This paper investigates how reading goals influence neural tracking of linguistic features during reading, finding that goal-related tasks enhance specific feature tracking.

Impaired cortical encoding of prosodic prominence in single multisyllabic words for adults with dyslexia

This study examines how adults with dyslexia encode prosodic prominence in multisyllabic words using EEG and TRF modeling, finding reduced delta-band tracking of intra-word prosody and speech envelope.

Anatomy of the Visual Word Form Area in Dyslexia

In 84 children, the Visual Word Form Area (VWFA) was smaller in dyslexia, but its cortical position, between-child spread and white matter tract overlap were unrelated to reading skill.

Brain State Dynamics and Developmental Differences in Reading Comprehension

This study uses fMRI and HMM to analyze brain state dynamics during reading comprehension in children and adults, finding developmental differences in state transitions and their relation to reading performance.

Dyslexia is characterized by atypical predictive coding specific to the left subcortical auditory pathway

This study identifies altered predictive coding in the left subcortical auditory pathway in individuals with dyslexia, linked to a dyslexia risk score.

Functional connectivity scaffolds the emergence of the visual word form area

The paper shows that functional connectivity patterns in reading circuitry precede and predict the emergence of the visual word form area in children with dyslexia after reading intervention.

Neural processing of natural speech by adults with and without dyslexia: Evidence for atypical cortical decoding of speech information in the delta and theta EEG bands

This study examines delta and theta band neural decoding of speech in adults with and without dyslexia, finding reduced decoding accuracy and coherence in dyslexic adults.

Data-driven Cognitive Clusters in Persistent Developmental Dyslexia

The paper identifies two distinct cognitive profiles in children with persistent developmental dyslexia using data-driven clustering and latent profile analysis.

Design and Validation of a Hybrid Stimulus fMRI Paradigm for Simultaneous Retinotopy and Mapping of Reading-Selective Visual Cortex

This paper designs and validates a hybrid fMRI paradigm to simultaneously map retinotopy and reading-selective visual cortex by decoupling spatial mapping carriers from central reading processes.

Development of Audiovisual Integration in Beginning Readers: A Longitudinal fMRI Study

This study tracks neural and behavioral changes in audiovisual integration during first-grade reading development using fMRI and behavioral tests.

Learning to read a second language establishes a parallel L2 representation alongside the native one in the VWFA

The paper investigates how learning a second language affects the Visual Word Form Area (VWFA) by comparing brain responses to native and second language words in children at different literacy stages.

A discovery and replication study of dyslexia does not reveal reproducible gray matter volume differences

This study investigates GMV differences in dyslexia and finds they do not replicate across studies, highlighting issues with statistical thresholds and covariate control.

Striatal activity during contextual word learning is influenced by children's reading ability

The paper examines how reward-related brain activity during contextual word learning differs between children with typical reading skills and those with dyslexia, finding reduced ventral striatum activation in dyslexic children.

Hierarchical Predictive Processing during Natural Reading

The paper investigates hierarchical predictive processing during natural reading using EEG and eye movements, finding distinct prediction error signals at different linguistic levels.

Literacy acquisition and functional connectivity drive the emergence and continued development of the VWFA

This study shows literacy acquisition and functional connectivity drive the development of the VWFA, with literacy increasing word selectivity and connectivity changes linking to reading ability.

Dysfunction of the colliculus-pulvinar pathway in children with developmental dyslexia

This study identifies a selective deficit in achromatic motion processing in the colliculus-pulvinar pathway in children with dyslexia, which correlates with reading difficulties.

Multivariate pattern similarity of hemodynamic brain responses to spoken and written words increases during primary school

The paper examines how brain responses to spoken and written words become more similar with reading experience in primary school children.

Posterior Periodic Alpha Power as a Neural Marker of Early Biliteracy Skills: The Mediating Role of Rapid Automatized Naming in Chinese-English Bilingual Children

This study examines how posterior periodic alpha power relates to biliteracy skills in bilingual children, finding it predicts literacy outcomes and is mediated by rapid automatized naming.

Predictive coding narrows the gap between convolutional networks and human brain function in misspelled-word reading

The paper enhances a convolutional neural network with predictive coding dynamics to better mimic human performance in recognizing misspelled words, reducing the accuracy gap between real and misspelled words.

Meaning for reading pseudowords: errors reveal semantic influences on pseudoword reading after stroke

This study investigates how semantic and phonological processes contribute to pseudoword reading deficits in stroke patients, finding that both error types are influenced by distinct cognitive and neural mechanisms.

Reading ability in both deaf and hearing adults is linked to neural representations of abstract phonology derived from visual speech

The paper shows that reading ability in deaf and hearing adults is linked to shared neural representations of abstract phonology from visual speech and other language forms in the superior and middle temporal cortex.

Preliterate symbolic language processing sets the neural stage for learning to read

The paper shows that symbolic language processing in the OTS-words region predicts later reading ability and text selectivity in children during literacy training.

The Georgetown Reading in Aging Neuroimaging Dataset (GRAND): Reading and multimodal MRI data in older adults

The paper introduces a dataset of reading behavior and multimodal MRI data from older adults to study normative reading patterns and brain-behavior relationships.

Simulating the spectrum, not the syndrome: Large scale individualized modeling of oral reading in stroke aphasia

The paper develops individualized computational models of alexia by simulating phonological and semantic deficits in stroke survivors, showing strong correlations with measured deficits but also model limitations.

Novelty, category and orientation tuning for printed characters: a magnetoencephalography study with fast periodic visual stimulation

This study uses magnetoencephalography with fast periodic visual stimulation to investigate neural responses to visual novelty, category, and orientation in letter recognition.

Rapid Orthographic and Delayed Phonological Processing: ERP and Oscillatory Evidence from Masked Priming in Korean

The paper investigates orthographic and phonological processing in Korean using ERP and oscillatory data from masked priming, finding sequential processing with early orthographic effects and later phonological effects.