Pathway Evidence of How Musical Perception Predicts Word-Level Reading Ability in Children with Reading Difficulties |
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| Authors: | Hugo Cogo-Moreira Clara Regina Brand?o de ávila George B. Ploubidis Jair de Jesus Mari |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Department of Psychiatry and Medical Psychology, Federal University of São Paulo, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.; 2. Department of Hearing and Speech Pathology, Federal University of Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo, Brazil.; 3. Department of Population Health, London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, London, United Kingdom.; University of Pécs Medical School, Hungary, |
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| Abstract: | ObjectiveTo investigate whether specific domains of musical perception (temporal and melodic domains) predict the word-level reading skills of eight- to ten-year-old children (n = 235) with reading difficulties, normal quotient of intelligence, and no previous exposure to music education classes. MethodA general-specific solution of the Montreal Battery of Evaluation of Amusia (MBEA), which underlies a musical perception construct and is constituted by three latent factors (the general, temporal, and the melodic domain), was regressed on word-level reading skills (rate of correct isolated words/non-words read per minute). ResultsGeneral and melodic latent domains predicted word-level reading skills. |
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