Effects of simultaneous auditory feedback on reading accuracy during reading development

✍ Scribed by Patrizio E. Tressoldi; Claudio Vio; Paola Scotti

• Publisher: Springer Netherlands
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 442 KB
• Volume: 3
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0922-4777
• DOI: 10.1007/bf00420031

✦ Synopsis

Five groups of twelve right-handed male children from the second to the sixth grade with normal reading efficiency were tested under three conditions of simultaneous amplified auditory feedback, binaurally, to the left and to the right ear, on reading aboud two separate classes of words, nouns and nonwords. Lateralized feedback was supposed to shift auditory attention towards the source of input and modify as a consequence, the functionality of the contralateral hemisphere. Right ear feedback improved reading accuracy with respect to the control (binaural) or left ear condition in the first three grades. No effect was observed in the fifth grade whereas in the sixth grade, the condition of left ear feedback improved only the reading of nouns. Changes in reading accuracy are interpreted according to an hypothesis of a decrement of the left hemisphere involvement during the course of reading development. These changes are discussed in relation to Frith's (1985) psycholinguistic model of reading acquisition.