Action Video Games Enhance Attentional Control and Phonological Decoding in Children with Developmental Dyslexia
Reading acquisition is extremely difficult for about 5% of children because they are affected by a heritable neurobiological disorder called developmental dyslexia (DD). Intervention studies can be used to investigate the causal role of neurocognitive deficits in DD. Recently, it has been proposed that action video games (AVGs)-enhancing attentional control-could improve perception and working memory as well as reading skills. In a partial crossover intervention study, we investigated the effect of AVG and non-AVG training on attentional control using a conjunction visual search task in children with DD. We also measured the non-alphanumeric rapid automatized naming (RAN), phonological decoding and word reading before and after AVG and non-AVG training. After both video game training sessions no effect was found in non-alphanumeric RAN and in word reading performance. However, after only 12 h of AVG training the attentional control was improved (i.e., the set-size slopes were flatter in visual search) and phonological decoding speed was accelerated. Crucially, attentional control and phonological decoding speed were increased only in DD children whose video game score was highly efficient after the AVG training. We demonstrated that only an efficient AVG training induces a plasticity of the fronto-parietal attentional control linked to a selective phonological decoding improvement in children with DD.
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2021 |
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2021 |
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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:11 |
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Brain sciences - 11(2021), 2 vom: 29. Jan. |
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Englisch |
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Bertoni, Sara [VerfasserIn] |
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Date Revised 31.03.2024 published: Electronic Citation Status PubMed-not-MEDLINE |
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10.3390/brainsci11020171 |
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