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Bilateral ventral pathways support phonological awareness at reading onset in Spanish-speaking children Abstract. Reading is a fundamental human skill that has been widely studied. While substantial progress has been made in identifying the white matter pathways supporting reading in adults, less is kno...

Phonological processing = left dorsal stream?
Not in Mexican Spanish-speaking children at reading onset.
Here, bilateral ventral — not dorsal— pathways predict phonological awareness.
Neuroscience should broaden the populations it studies to build generalizable brain models.
doi.org/10.1162/NOL....