Sara Bertoni, Chiara Andreola, Sara Mascheretti, Sandro Franceschini, Milena Ruffino, Vittoria Trezzi, Massimo Molteni, Maria Enrica Sali, Antonio Salandi, Ombretta Gaggi, Claudio Palazzi, Simone Gori, Andrea Facoetti
Action video-games (AVGs) could improve reading efficiency, enhancing not only visual attention but also phonological processing. Here we tested the AVG effects upon three consolidated language-based predictors of reading development in a sample of 79 pre-readers at-risk and 41 non-at-risk for developmental dyslexia. At-risk children were impaired in either phonemic awareness (i.e., phoneme discrimination task), phonological working memory (i.e., pseudoword repetition task) or rapid automatized naming (i.e...
March 21, 2024: NPJ Science of Learning