The heritability of reading and reading-related neurocognitive components: A multi-level meta-analysis

Autor: Raffaella Belotti, Cecilia Marino, Anna Ogliari, Sara Mascheretti, Simona Scaini, Marco Battaglia, Chiara Andreola
Přispěvatelé: Laboratoire de psychologie du développement et de l'éducation de l'enfant (LaPsyDÉ - UMR 8240), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université de Paris (UP), IRCCS Eugenio Medea, IRCCS, IRCCS Ospedale San Raffaele [Milan, Italy], Departments of Psychology and Psychiatry, University of Toronto, Toronto, Centre for Addiction and Mental Health [Toronto] (CAMH), Sigmund Freud University (SFU), Andreola, C., Mascheretti, S., Belotti, R., Ogliari, A., Marino, C., Battaglia, M., Scaini, S.
Rok vydání: 2020
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Zdroj: Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews
Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, Oxford: Elsevier Ltd., 2020, 121, pp.175-200. ⟨10.1016/j.neubiorev.2020.11.016⟩
ISSN: 1873-7528
Popis: International audience; Reading ability is a complex task requiring the integration of multiple cognitive and perceptual systems supporting language, visual and orthographic processes, working memory, attention, motor movements, and higherlevel comprehension and cognition. Estimates of genetic and environmental influences for some of these readingrelated neurocognitive components vary across reports. By using a multi-level meta-analysis approach, we synthesized the results of behavioral genetic research on reading-related neurocognitive components (i.e. general reading, letter-word knowledge, phonological decoding, reading comprehension, spelling, phonological awareness, rapid automatized naming, and language) of 49 twin studies spanning 4.1-18.5 years of age, with a total sample size of more than 38,000 individuals. Except for language for which shared environment seems to play a more important role, the causal architecture across most of the reading-related neurocognitive components can be represented by the following equation a 2 > e 2 > c 2. Moderators analysis revealed that sex and spoken language did not affect the heritability of any reading-related skills; school grade levels moderated the heritability of general reading, reading comprehension and phonological awareness.
Databáze: OpenAIRE