In Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), Professor Robert Dougherty and colleagues at Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA, US) reported that differences in the fibers connecting the two hemispheres of the brain are correlated with competence in phonological awareness. They examined the corpus callosa of 49 children using diffusion tensor imaging and related measures of reading to the differences in the features of the structures that they assessed.
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