Figure 1.

Developmental effects in the activation magnitude for phonological processing. (a) Univariate whole‐brain analyses revealed increased activation in the left inferior parietal cortex (LIPC, red) and bilateral precuneus (yellow) for prereading compared to emergent reading stages, whereas no significant difference was identified for the opposite direction or other contrasts (prereading vs beginning reading, beginning reading vs emergent reading). Results are reported at voxel‐level p _uncorrected < .001, k ≥ 29, corresponding to the cluster‐level threshold at p < .05, Monte‐Carlo corrected for multiple comparisons. RH: right hemisphere; LH: left hemisphere. (b) Post‐hoc analyses in the LIPC and bilateral precuneus revealed significant decreases in activation for the contrast FSM > rest, whereas significant increase in activation for the contrast VM > rest was observed. Moreover, ROI analyses in the bilateral primary visual cortices, derived from Brem et al. (2010), did not reveal any significant developmental changes for any of the contrasts [Color figure can be viewed at http://www.wileyonlinelibrary.com]