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Shuting Huo; Jason Chor Ming Lo; Kelvin Fai Hong Lui; Urs Maurer; Catherine Mcbride – Child Development, 2025
Neural specialization for print can be indexed by the left-lateralized N1 response as a tuning gradient to visual words, indicated by sensitivity (character vs. visual control) and selectivity (character vs. character-like stimuli). Forty-five Chinese children (20 boys) were recorded with EEG twice with a 2-year interval during a character…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Children, Brain, Specialization
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Harlaar, Nicole; Trzaskowski, Maciej; Dale, Philip S.; Plomin, Robert – Child Development, 2014
The genetic effects on individual differences in reading development were examined using genome-wide complex trait analysis (GCTA) in a twin sample. In unrelated individuals (one twin per pair, n = 2,942), the GCTA-based heritability of reading fluency was ~20%-29% at ages 7 and 12. GCTA bivariate results showed that the phenotypic stability of…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Twins, Genetics, Individual Differences