The left brain image shows the area of compromised white matter (blue area) among poor readers relative to good readers at the beginning of the study. The center brain image shows the area where the structural integrity increased (red/yellow area) among poor readers who received the instruction, and it is very similar to the initially compromised area. The right brain image shows that following the instruction, there were no differences between the good and poor readers with respect to the integrity of their white matter.
Dyslexic children are poor readers. Possibly because their brains' neural networks are wired differently than that of normal children. Cognitive scientists say, they are picture readers, so they learn to read very slowly when words are not defined by pictures and sounds.
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, Timothy Keller and Marcel Just have found evidence of possible brain rewiring after an intensive remedial sessions to improve reading skills in young children. The evidence showed an improvement in dyslexic brain's structure with respect to the white matter, the brain tissue that carries signals between sections of grey matter, where information is processed.
The experiment commenced by scanning the brains of 72 children using fMRI, 47 of them were good readers and 25 were poor. The good readers did not receive the 100-hour remedial training, while the group of poor readers underwent the remedial reading session.
After completion, all the 72 subjects' brains were re-scanned. The 47 good readers did not show an increase in the brain tissue while the other 25 showed the white matter in their brains has increased significantly correlating to an improvement in their reading skills. "The children who showed the most white matter change also showed the most improvement in reading ability, confirming the link between the brain tissue alteration and reading progress", researchers said.
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