White Matter Morphometric Changes Uniquely Predict Children’s Reading Acquisition

Psychological Science

Volumn 25, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1870-1883

  Myers, Chelsea A ^a   Vandermosten, Maaike ^b   Farris, Emily A ^a,c   Hancock, Roeland ^a   Gimenez, Paul ^a   Black, Jessica M ^a,d   Casto, Brandi ^a,e   Drahos, Miroslav ^a   Tumber, Mandeep ^a,e   Hendren, Robert L ^a   Hulme, Charles ^f   Hoeft, Fumiko ^a,g,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS OF THE PERMIAN BASIN   (United States)

^d BOSTON COLLEGE   (United States)

^e PALO ALTO UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^g YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^h KEIO UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

brain; childhood development; cognitive development; literacy; reading; white matter

Indexed keywords

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; FEMALE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; MALE; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; ORGAN SIZE; PARIETAL LOBE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; READING; TEMPORAL LOBE; WHITE MATTER;

CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; ORGAN SIZE; PARIETAL LOBE; READING; TEMPORAL LOBE; WHITE MATTER;

EID: 84908254525     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956797614544511     Document Type: Article

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