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A universal reading network and its modulation by writing system and reading ability in French and Chinese children

Xiaoxia Feng, Irene Altarelli, Karla Monzalvo, Guosheng Ding, Franck Ramus, Hua Shu, Stanislas Dehaene, Xiangzhi Meng, View ORCID ProfileGhislaine Dehaene-Lambertz
doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/834945
Xiaoxia Feng
1State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning & IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
2Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, CEA DRF/I2BM, INSERM, NeuroSpin Center, Université Paris-Sud, Université ParisSaclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Irene Altarelli
2Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, CEA DRF/I2BM, INSERM, NeuroSpin Center, Université Paris-Sud, Université ParisSaclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Karla Monzalvo
2Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, CEA DRF/I2BM, INSERM, NeuroSpin Center, Université Paris-Sud, Université ParisSaclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Guosheng Ding
1State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning & IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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Franck Ramus
3Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique (ENS, CNRS, EHESS), Ecole Normale Supérieure, PSL Research University, Paris, France
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Hua Shu
1State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning & IDG/McGovern Institute for Brain Research, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China
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Stanislas Dehaene
2Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, CEA DRF/I2BM, INSERM, NeuroSpin Center, Université Paris-Sud, Université ParisSaclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
4Collège de France, Paris, France
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Xiangzhi Meng
5School of Psychological and Cognitive Sciences, Beijing Key Laboratory of Behavior and Mental Health, Peking University, Beijing, China
6PekingU-PolyU Center for Child Development and Learning, Peking University, Beijing, China
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Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz
2Cognitive Neuroimaging Unit, CEA DRF/I2BM, INSERM, NeuroSpin Center, Université Paris-Sud, Université ParisSaclay, Gif-sur-Yvette, France
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Abstract

Are the brain mechanisms of reading acquisition similar across writing systems? And do similar brain anomalies underlie reading disabilities in alphabetic and ideographic reading systems? In a cross-cultural paradigm, we measured the fMRI responses to words, faces and houses of 96 Chinese and French 10-year-old children, half of whom struggle with reading. We observed a reading circuit which was strikingly similar across languages and consisting of the left fusiform gyrus, superior temporal gyrus/sulcus, precentral and middle frontal gyri. Activations in some of these areas were modulated either by language or by reading ability, but without interaction between those factors. In various regions previously associated with dyslexia, reading difficulty affected activation similarly in Chinese and French readers, including the middle frontal gyrus, a region previously described as specifically altered in Chinese. Our analyses reveal a large degree of cross-cultural invariance in the neural correlates of reading acquisition and reading disabilities.

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A universal reading network and its modulation by writing system and reading ability in French and Chinese children
Xiaoxia Feng, Irene Altarelli, Karla Monzalvo, Guosheng Ding, Franck Ramus, Hua Shu, Stanislas Dehaene, Xiangzhi Meng, Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz
bioRxiv 834945; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/834945
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A universal reading network and its modulation by writing system and reading ability in French and Chinese children
Xiaoxia Feng, Irene Altarelli, Karla Monzalvo, Guosheng Ding, Franck Ramus, Hua Shu, Stanislas Dehaene, Xiangzhi Meng, Ghislaine Dehaene-Lambertz
bioRxiv 834945; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/834945

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