Longer Screen Vs. Reading Time is Related to Greater Functional Connections Between the Salience Network and Executive Functions Regions in Children with Reading Difficulties Vs. Typical Readers

Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus; Mark DiFrancesco; Paige Greenwood; Elisha Scott; Jennifer Vannest; John Hutton; Jon Dudley; Mekibib Altaye; Rola Farah

doi:10.1007/s10578-020-01053-x

Longer Screen Vs. Reading Time is Related to Greater Functional Connections Between the Salience Network and Executive Functions Regions in Children with Reading Difficulties Vs. Typical Readers

Tzipi Horowitz-Kraus
, Mark DiFrancesco
, Paige Greenwood
, Elisha Scott
, Jennifer Vannest
, John Hutton
, Jon Dudley
, Mekibib Altaye
, Rola Farah

Technion-Israel Institute of Technology
Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center
University of Cincinnati

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Abstract

An adverse relationship between screen exposure time and brain functional/structural connectivity was reported in typically developing children, specifically related to neurobiological correlates of reading ability. As children with reading difficulties (RD) suffer from impairments in reading and executive functions (EF), we sought to determine the association between the ratio of screen time duration to reading time duration and functional connectivity of EF networks to the entire brain in children with RD compared to typical readers (TRs) using resting state data. Screen/reading time ratio was related to reduced reading and EF abilities. A larger screen/reading time ratio was correlated with increased functional connectivity between the salience network and frontal-EF regions in children with RD compared to TRs. We suggest that whereas greater screen/reading time ratio is related to excessive stimulation of the visual processing system in TRs, it may be related to decreased efficiency of the cognitive control system in RDs.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	681-692
Number of pages	12
Journal	Child Psychiatry and Human Development
Volume	52
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-020-01053-x
State	Published - Aug 2021
Externally published	Yes

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Funding

This study was supported by an NICHD Grant (RO1 HD086011, PI: Horowitz-Kraus).

Funders	Funder number
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development	R01HD086011
Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development

UN SDGs

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SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being

Keywords

Cognitive control
Dyslexia
Functional connectivity
Reading ability
Resting state
Screen exposure

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Horowitz-Kraus, T., DiFrancesco, M., Greenwood, P., Scott, E., Vannest, J., Hutton, J., Dudley, J., Altaye, M., & Farah, R. (2021). Longer Screen Vs. Reading Time is Related to Greater Functional Connections Between the Salience Network and Executive Functions Regions in Children with Reading Difficulties Vs. Typical Readers. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 52(4), 681-692. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-020-01053-x

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Horowitz-Kraus T, DiFrancesco M, Greenwood P, Scott E, Vannest J, Hutton J et al. Longer Screen Vs. Reading Time is Related to Greater Functional Connections Between the Salience Network and Executive Functions Regions in Children with Reading Difficulties Vs. Typical Readers. Child Psychiatry and Human Development. 2021 Aug;52(4):681-692. doi: 10.1007/s10578-020-01053-x

Longer Screen Vs. Reading Time is Related to Greater Functional Connections Between the Salience Network and Executive Functions Regions in Children with Reading Difficulties Vs. Typical Readers

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