Protracted Neural Development of Dorsal Motor Systems During Handwriting and the Relation to Early Literacy Skills

Handwriting is a complex visual-motor skill that affects early reading development. A large body of work has demonstrated that handwriting is supported by a widespread neural system comprising ventral-temporal, parietal, and frontal motor regions in adults. Recent work has demonstrated that this neu...

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Autores principales:	Sophia Vinci-Booher, Karin H. James
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Publicado:	Frontiers Media S.A. 2021
Materias:	handwriting fMRI dorsal visual stream literacy development Psychology BF1-990
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spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:c96701f7f9e04ddfbf3a3ba5ab0572412021-11-19T05:06:06ZProtracted Neural Development of Dorsal Motor Systems During Handwriting and the Relation to Early Literacy Skills1664-107810.3389/fpsyg.2021.750559https://doaj.org/article/c96701f7f9e04ddfbf3a3ba5ab0572412021-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.750559/fullhttps://doaj.org/toc/1664-1078Handwriting is a complex visual-motor skill that affects early reading development. A large body of work has demonstrated that handwriting is supported by a widespread neural system comprising ventral-temporal, parietal, and frontal motor regions in adults. Recent work has demonstrated that this neural system is largely established by 8 years of age, suggesting that the development of this system occurs in young children who are still learning to read and write. We made use of a novel MRI-compatible writing tablet that allowed us to measure brain activation in 5–8-year-old children during handwriting. We compared activation during handwriting in children and adults to provide information concerning the developmental trajectory of the neural system that supports handwriting. We found that parietal and frontal motor involvement during handwriting in children is different from adults, suggesting that the neural system that supports handwriting changes over the course of development. Furthermore, we found that parietal and frontal motor activation correlated with a literacy composite score in our child sample, suggesting that the individual differences in the dorsal response during handwriting are related to individual differences in emerging literacy skills. Our results suggest that components of the widespread neural system supporting handwriting develop at different rates and provide insight into the mechanisms underlying the contributions of handwriting to early literacy development.Sophia Vinci-BooherKarin H. JamesFrontiers Media S.A.articlehandwritingfMRIdorsal visual streamliteracydevelopmentPsychologyBF1-990ENFrontiers in Psychology, Vol 12 (2021)
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description	Handwriting is a complex visual-motor skill that affects early reading development. A large body of work has demonstrated that handwriting is supported by a widespread neural system comprising ventral-temporal, parietal, and frontal motor regions in adults. Recent work has demonstrated that this neural system is largely established by 8 years of age, suggesting that the development of this system occurs in young children who are still learning to read and write. We made use of a novel MRI-compatible writing tablet that allowed us to measure brain activation in 5–8-year-old children during handwriting. We compared activation during handwriting in children and adults to provide information concerning the developmental trajectory of the neural system that supports handwriting. We found that parietal and frontal motor involvement during handwriting in children is different from adults, suggesting that the neural system that supports handwriting changes over the course of development. Furthermore, we found that parietal and frontal motor activation correlated with a literacy composite score in our child sample, suggesting that the individual differences in the dorsal response during handwriting are related to individual differences in emerging literacy skills. Our results suggest that components of the widespread neural system supporting handwriting develop at different rates and provide insight into the mechanisms underlying the contributions of handwriting to early literacy development.
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title	Protracted Neural Development of Dorsal Motor Systems During Handwriting and the Relation to Early Literacy Skills
title_short	Protracted Neural Development of Dorsal Motor Systems During Handwriting and the Relation to Early Literacy Skills
title_full	Protracted Neural Development of Dorsal Motor Systems During Handwriting and the Relation to Early Literacy Skills
title_fullStr	Protracted Neural Development of Dorsal Motor Systems During Handwriting and the Relation to Early Literacy Skills
title_full_unstemmed	Protracted Neural Development of Dorsal Motor Systems During Handwriting and the Relation to Early Literacy Skills
title_sort	protracted neural development of dorsal motor systems during handwriting and the relation to early literacy skills
publisher	Frontiers Media S.A.
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Protracted Neural Development of Dorsal Motor Systems During Handwriting and the Relation to Early Literacy Skills

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