Nature Communications (Jun 2018)

Rapid and widespread white matter plasticity during an intensive reading intervention

  • Elizabeth Huber,
  • Patrick M. Donnelly,
  • Ariel Rokem,
  • Jason D. Yeatman

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-04627-5
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 9, no. 1
pp. 1 – 13

Abstract

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White matter properties correlate with cognitive performance in a number of domains. Here the authors show that altering a child’s educational environment though a targeted intervention program induces rapid, large-scale changes in the white matter, and that these changes track the learning process.