Brain basis of phonological awareness for spoken language in children and its disruption in dyslexia
Kovelman, I., Norton, E. S., Christodoulou, J. A., Gaab, N., Lieberman, D. A., Triantafyllou, C., Wolf, M., Whitfield-Gabrieli, S., & Gabrieli, J. D. (2012). Brain basis of phonological awareness for spoken language in children and its disruption in dyslexia. Cerebral Cortex, 22(4), 754–764. https://doi.org/10.1093/cercor/bhr094
Summary: We examined the brain basis of phonological awareness in children who were typical readers or who had dyslexia, and a younger group. Typically developing children, but not children with dyslexia, recruited left dorsolateral prefrontal cortex (DLPFC) when making explicit phonological judgments.