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While recent studies employing fMRI to test this question report that the left inferior frontal gyrus (IFG) and ventral occipitotemporal cortex (vOTC) are active during both spelling and reading in the same subjects (Purcell et al., 2011a; Rapp and Lipka, 2011), the spatial resolution of fMRI limits the interpretation of these findings.
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Partial correlations show that the correlation of phoneme awareness with both spelling and reading vanished when it was controlled for letter knowledge (r = 0.02 and r = 0.03).
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However, the reduced vOT activation for the phonological pseudoword spelling condition relative to both word spelling conditions speaks against a general correspondence of spelling and reading findings in left vOT.
The Wechsler Objective Reading Dimensions (WORD) [ 49] was used to assess reading, spelling and reading comprehension abilities in children up to the age of 12.
Using a functional localizer for reading, we defined the VWFA in each subject, and found adaptation effects for both within the spelling and reading conditions, respectively, as well as across spelling and reading.
Here we address this question by employing an event-related functional magnetic resonance imaging-adaptation (fMRI-A) paradigm designed to examine shared orthographic representations across spelling and reading.
The aim was to test the effect of two-mode trainings on letter knowledge, pseudowords spelling and reading with 3-year and 5-year-old children.
Every week, Ms. Williams gives spelling and reading comprehension tests to her fifth-grade students.
Because none of these effects were observed during a phonological/semantic control condition, we conclude that the left dorsal IFG and VWFA are involved in accessing the same orthography-specific representations for spelling and reading.
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