Neuropsychological functions in the skills of home to lectoscription
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Numerous studies have tried to identify the set of skills and knowledge that are the basis for the development of literacy as phonological awareness, orthographic awareness and RAN. Since learning of literacy has its onset between 3 and 6 years, which is the maximum period of brain plasticity, it is clear the need to relate certain brain functions with the early onset of the skills that are the basis of its learning. Thus, the main objective of this work is the detection of neuropsychological functions that allow proper development of all those skills. Participants were 119 students who have been assessed twice, when 4 and 5 years old. The instruments used were the BIL, the Rapid Automatized Naming and CUMANIN. Results indicate that at 4 years all neuropsychological variables that were examined showed a positive correlation with the alphabetically knowledge presented by children. Moreover, in this age has also been relevant the role of spatial structure and visual perception in acquiring the ability to recognize and name as quickly as possible a series of stimuli. Thus, we conclude the presence of a strong relationship between neurocognitive functions (as psychomotricity, spatial structure, attention and visual perception) and the early literacy learning skills.
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