The DyslexiaKid project's scientific publications and the resulting press releases.
Scientific articles about the follow-up study
- Maturation of speech-elicited event-related potentials from birth to 28 months: typical development with minor effects of dyslexia risk. Navarrete-Arroyo, S., Putkinen, V., Kujala, T., & Virtala, P. 2025. Biological Psychology 198, 109050.
- Early maturation of neural auditory novelty detection − Typical development with no major effects of dyslexia risk or music. Kujala, T., Putkinen, V., & Virtala, P. 2024. Clinical Neurophysiology 167, 131-142.
- Infant neural speech encoding is associated with pre-reading skill development. Navarrete-Arroyo, S., Virtala, P., Laasonen, M., & Kujala, T. 2024. Clinical Neurophysiology 164, 100–110.
- Infant mismatch responses to speech-sound changes predict language development in preschoolers at risk for dyslexia. Navarrete-Arroyo, S., Virtala, P., Nie, P., Kailaheimo-Lönnqvist, L., Salonen, S., & Kujala, T. 2024. Clinical Neurophysiology 162, 248-261.
- Beneficial effects of a music listening intervention on neural speech processing in 0–28-month-old children at risk for dyslexia. Virtala, P., Putkinen, V., Gallen, A., Thiede, A., J. Trainor, L., & Kujala, T. 2023. Developmental science 26(5), e13426.
- Neural phoneme discrimination in variable speech in newborns – Associations with dyslexia risk and later language skills. Virtala, P., Kujala, T., Partanen, E. et al. 2023. Brain and Cognition 168, 105974.
- Infancy and early childhood maturation of neural auditory change detection and its associations to familial dyslexia risk. Virtala, P., Putkinen, V., Kailaheimo-Lönnqvist, L., Thiede, A., Partanen, E., Kujala, T. 2022. Clinical Neurophysiology 137, 159-176.
- Infant event-related potentials to speech are associated with prelinguistic development. Kailaheimo-Lönnqvist, L., Virtala, P., Fandakova, Y., Partanen, E., Leppänen, P.H.T., Thiede, A., Kujala, T. 2020. Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience 45.
- An extensive pattern of atypical neural speech-sound discrimination in newborns at risk of dyslexia. Thiede, A., Virtala, P., Ala-Kurikka, I., Partanen, E., Huotilainen, M., Mikkola, K., Leppänen, P.H.T., Kujala, T. 2019. Clinical Neurophysiology 130(5), 634-646.
- Can very early music interventions promote at-risk infants’ development? Virtala, P., Partanen, E. 2018. Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences 1423(1).
Other publications from the project
- Revealing speech perception in the newborn brain with the means of mismatch negativity. Kujala, T. 2025. Annales Academiae Scientiarum Fennicae 1, 28–41.
- Impact of Native Language on Musical Working Memory: A Cross-Cultural Online Study. Nie, P., Tillmann, B., Wang, C., Tervaniemi, M. 2024. Music Perception 41, 262-274.
- Training non-native speech sounds results in long-lasting plastic changes – Hard-wiring new memory traces takes time. Tamminen, H., Kujala, T., Peltola, M.S. 2024. Lingua 302, 103697.
- Establishing neural representations for new word forms in 12-month-old infants. Ylinen, S., Suppanen, E., Winkler, I., Kujala, T. 2024. Frontiers in Human Neuroscience 18.
- Music and reading activities in early childhood associated with improved language development in preterm infants at 2–3 years of age. Kostilainen, K., Fontell, N., Mikkola, K., Pakarinen, S., Virtala, P., Huotilainen, M., Fellman, V., Partanen, E. 2024. Frontiers in Psychology 15.
- Prerequisites of language acquisition in the newborn brain. Kujala, T., Partanen, E., Virtala, P. & Winkler, I. 2023. Trends in Neurosciences 46(9), 726-737.
- Structural white matter connectometry of reading and dyslexia. Sihvonen, A. J., Virtala, P., Thiede, A., Laasonen, M., Kujala, T. 2021. NeuroImage 241, 118411.
- Repeated Parental Singing During Kangaroo Care Improved Neural Processing of Speech Sound Changes in Preterm Infants at Term Age. Kostilainen, K., Partanen, E., Mikkola, K., Wikström, V., Pakarinen, S., Fellman, V., Huotilainen, M. 2021. Frontiers in Neuroscience 15, 686027.
- Voxel and surface based whole brain analysis shows reading skill associated grey matter abnormalities in dyslexia. Kujala, T., Sihvonen, A., Thiede, A., Palo-oja, P., Virtala, P., Numminen, J., Laasonen, M. 2021. Scientific Reports 11(1), 10862.
- Impaired Perception and Neural Processing of Rules in Developmental Dyslexia. Virtala, P., Partanen, E., Kujala, T. 2021. Journal of Learning Disabilities 54(6), 452-465.
- Neuromagnetic speech discrimination responses are associated with reading-related skills in dyslexic and typical readers. Thiede, A., Parkkonen, L., Virtala, P., Laasonen, M., Makela, J. P., Kujala, T. 2020. Heliyon 6(8), 04619.
- Atypical MEG inter-subject correlation during listening to continuous natural speech in dyslexia. Thiede, A., Glerean, E., Kujala, T., Parkkonen, L. 2020. NeuroImage 216, 116799.
- Poor neural and perceptual phoneme discrimination during acoustic variation in dyslexia. Virtala, P., Talola, S., Partanen, E., Kujala, T. 2020. Scientific Reports 10, 8646.
- Neural discrimination of speech sound changes in a variable context occurs irrespective of attention and explicit awareness. Virtala, P., Partanen, E., Tervaniemi, M., Kujala, T. 2018. Biological Psychology 132, 217-227.