Correction for Brem et al., Brain sensitivity to print emerges when children learn letter–speech sound correspondences

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Correction for “Brain sensitivity to print emerges when children learn letter–speech sound correspondences,” by Silvia Brem, Silvia Bach, Karin Kucian, Tomi K. Guttorm, Ernst Martin, Heikki Lyytinen, Daniel Brandeis, and Ulla Richardson, which appeared in issue 17, April 27, 2010, of Proc Natl Acad Sci USA (107:7939–7944; first published April 15, 2010; 10.1073/pnas.0904402107).

The authors note that Janne V. Kujala should be added to the author list between Karin Kucian and Tomi K. Guttorm. Janne V. Kujala should be credited with designing research and, in particular, developing the mathematical theory of consistency used in the design and applying it to the Swiss German language for this study. Karin Kucian should be credited designing research. The corrected author line, affiliation line, and author contributions appear below. The online version has been corrected.

The authors also note that the following statement should be added to the Acknowledgments: “We thank the ‘Graphogame’ team at the University of Jyväskylä and especially Jane Erskine, Anne Mönkkönen, Marika Peltonen and Gonny Willems for their help in developing the Graphogame and the control game.”

Silvia Brem^a,b, Silvia Bach^a,b, Karin Kucian^c, Janne V. Kujala^a, Tomi K. Guttorm^a,d, Ernst Martin^c,e, Heikki Lyytinen^a,d, Daniel Brandeis^b,e,f, and Ulla Richardson^a

^aAgora Center and ^dDepartment of Psychology and Child Research Centre, University of Jyväskylä, 40014 Jyväskylä, Finland; ^bDepartment of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Zürich, 8032 Zürich, Switzerland; ^cMR Center, University Children’s Hospital, 8032 Zürich, Switzerland; ^eCenter for Integrative Human Physiology, University of Zürich, 8057 Zürich, Switzerland; and ^fDepartment of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychotherapy, Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim J5 68072, Germany

Author contributions: S. Brem, K.K., J.V.K., T.K.G., E.M., H.L., D.B., and U.R. designed research; S. Brem, S. Bach, and K.K. performed research; S. Brem and S. Bach analyzed data; and S. Brem, D.B., and U.R. wrote the paper.