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Journal of Learning Disabilities, Vol. 39, No. 4, 352-363 (2006)
DOI: 10.1177/00222194060390040801

Below-Average, Average, and Above-Average Readers Engage Different and Similar Brain Regions While Reading

Dennis L. Molfese

Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences and Professor at the University of Louisville, Dennis.Molfese{at}louisville.edu

Alexandra Fonaryova Key

Vanderbilt University

Spencer Kelly

Colgate University

Natalie Cunningham

Shona Terrell

Melissa Ferguson

University of Louisville

Victoria J. Molfese

University of Louisville and director of the Center for Research in Early Childhood

Terri Bonebright

DePauw University

Event-related potentials (ERPs) were recorded from 27 children (14 girls, 13 boys) who varied in their reading skill levels. Both behavior performance measures recorded during the ERP word classification task and the ERP responses themselves discriminated between children with above-average, average, and below-average reading skills. ERP amplitudes and peak latencies decreased as reading skills increased. Furthermore, hemisphere differences increased with higher reading skill levels. Sex differences were also related to ERP amplitude variations across the scalp. However, ERPs recorded from boys and girls did not differ as a function of differences in the children's reading levels.


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