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Early-initiated childhood reading for pleasure : associations with better cognitive performance, mental well-being and brain structure in young adolescence
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Sun, Yun-Jun, Sahakian, Barbara J., Langley, Christelle, Yang, Anyi, Jiang, Yuchao, Kang, Jujiao, Zhao, Xingming, Li, Chunhe, Cheng, Wei and Feng, Jianfeng (2024) Early-initiated childhood reading for pleasure : associations with better cognitive performance, mental well-being and brain structure in young adolescence. Psychological Medicine, 54 (2). pp. 359-373. doi:10.1017/S0033291723001381 ISSN 0033-2917.
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Official URL: https://doi.org/10.1017/S0033291723001381
Abstract
Childhood is a crucial neurodevelopmental period. We investigated whether childhood reading for pleasure (RfP) was related to young adolescent assessments of cognition, mental health, and brain structure. We conducted a cross-sectional and longitudinal study in a large-scale US national cohort (10 000 + young adolescents), using the well-established linear mixed model and structural equation methods for twin study, longitudinal and mediation analyses. A 2-sample Mendelian randomization (MR) analysis for potential causal inference was also performed. Important factors including socio-economic status were controlled. Early-initiated long-standing childhood RfP (early RfP) was highly positively correlated with performance on cognitive tests and significantly negatively correlated with mental health problem scores of young adolescents. These participants with higher early RfP scores exhibited moderately larger total brain cortical areas and volumes, with increased regions including the temporal, frontal, insula, supramarginal; left angular, para-hippocampal; right middle-occipital, anterior-cingulate, orbital areas; and subcortical ventral-diencephalon and thalamus. These brain structures were significantly related to their cognitive and mental health scores, and displayed significant mediation effects. Early RfP was longitudinally associated with higher crystallized cognition and lower attention symptoms at follow-up. Approximately 12 h/week of youth regular RfP was cognitively optimal. We further observed a moderately significant heritability of early RfP, with considerable contribution from environments. MR analysis revealed beneficial causal associations of early RfP with adult cognitive performance and left superior temporal structure. These findings, for the first time, revealed the important relationships of early RfP with subsequent brain and cognitive development and mental well-being.
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Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology P Language and Literature > PN Literature (General) Q Science > QP Physiology R Medicine > RB Pathology R Medicine > RC Internal medicine |
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Computer Science | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
SWORD Depositor: | Library Publications Router | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Library of Congress Subject Headings (LCSH): | Brain, Children -- Books and reading , Medical genetics -- Statistical methods, Psychology, Pathological , Cognition , Cognition in children, Developmental psychology | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Psychological Medicine | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Publisher: | Cambridge University Press | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
ISSN: | 0033-2917 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Official Date: | January 2024 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Volume: | 54 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Number: | 2 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Page Range: | pp. 359-373 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
DOI: | 10.1017/S0033291723001381 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Access rights to Published version: | Open Access (Creative Commons) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of first compliant deposit: | 8 September 2023 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Date of first compliant Open Access: | 8 September 2023 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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