The interplay of socio-economic status represented by paternal educational level, white matter structure and reading

A child's school achievement is influenced by environmental factors. The environmental factors, when represented by socio-economic status (SES) of the family, have been demonstrated to be related to the reading skills of a child. The neural correlates of the relation between SES and reading hav...

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Published in:PloS one 2019-05, Vol.14 (5), p.e0215560-e0215560
Main Authors: Vanderauwera, Jolijn, van Setten, Ellie R H, Maurits, Natasha M, Maassen, Ben A M
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Academic achievement
Adolescent
Adolescents
Analysis
Anisotropy
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
Biology and Life Sciences
Child development
Cognition & reasoning
Dyslexia
Dyslexia - pathology
Education
Educational Status
Environmental factors
Female
Hemispheric laterality
Humans
Image Processing, Computer-Assisted
Influence
Language Tests
Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Male
Medicine and Health Sciences
Offspring
People and Places
Reading
Reading comprehension
Risk Factors
Skills
Social Class
Social Sciences
Socioeconomics
Studies
Substantia alba
Teenagers
White Matter - anatomy & histology
White Matter - diagnostic imaging
White Matter - physiology
Youth
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Summary:A child's school achievement is influenced by environmental factors. The environmental factors, when represented by socio-economic status (SES) of the family, have been demonstrated to be related to the reading skills of a child. The neural correlates of the relation between SES and reading have been less thoroughly investigated. The present study expands current research by exploring the relation between SES, quantified by paternal educational level, reading of the offspring and the structure of white matter pathways in the left hemisphere as derived from DTI-based tractography analyses. Therefore, three dorsal white matter pathways, i.e. the long, anterior and posterior segments of the arcuate fasciculus (AF), and three ventral white matter pathways, i.e. the inferior fronto-occipital fasciculus (IFOF), the inferior longitudinal fasciculus (ILF) and the uncinate fasciculus (UF), were manually dissected in the left hemisphere of 34 adolescents with a wide range of reading skills. The results demonstrated a relation between word reading, SES quantified by paternal educational level, and fractional anisotropy (FA) within the left dorsal AF segment and the left ventral UF. Thus, the present study proposes a relationship between paternal educational level and a specific white matter pathway that is important for reading, aiming to guide future research that can determine processes underlying this relationship.
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0215560