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• Social Competence and Moderate to Vigorous Physical Activity of School-Aged Children through a Creative Physical Education Intervention 

  Gråstén, Arto; Kokkonen, Marja; Quay, John; Kokkonen, Juha (Scientific Research Publishing, Inc., 2019)

  Traditional school physical education focuses on physical skills or strategies with an expectation that learning these skills lead to healthier lifestyle outside physical education classes, while children’s overall ...

• Physical fitness in relation to later body composition in pre-school children 

  Henriksson, Pontus; Leppänen, Marja; Henriksson, Hanna; Nyström, Christine Delisle; Cadenas-Sanchez, Cristina; Ek, Anna; Ruiz, Jonatan R.; Ortega, Francisco B.; Löf, Marie (Elsevier Australia, 2019)

  Objectives Although physical fitness is considered a marker of health in youth, little is known whether physical fitness in pre-school age is related to later body composition. Thus, this study investigated (i) associations ...

• Dynamics of morphological processing in pre-school children with and without familial risk for dyslexia 

  Louleli, Natalia; Hämäläinen, Jarmo A.; Nieminen, Lea; Parviainen, Tiina; Leppänen, Paavo H.T. (Elsevier, 2020)

  Difficulties in phonological processing and speech perception are associated with developmental dyslexia, but there is considerable diversity across people with developmental dyslexia (e.g., dyslexics with and without ...

• Behavioral and Brain Measures of Morphological Processing in Children With and Without Familial Risk for Dyslexia From Pre-school to First Grade 

  Louleli, Natalia; Hämäläinen, Jarmo A.; Leppänen, Paavo H. T. (Frontiers Media SA, 2021)

  School-age reading skills are associated with and predicted by preschool-age cognitive risk factors for dyslexia, such as deficits in phonological awareness, rapid automatized naming, letter knowledge, and verbal short-term ...

• Neural correlates of morphological processing and its development from pre-school to the first grade in children with and without familial risk for dyslexia 

  Louleli, Natalia; Hämäläinen, Jarmo A.; Nieminen, Lea; Parviainen, Tiina; Leppänen, Paavo H.T. (Elsevier, 2022)

  Previous studies have shown that the development of morphological awareness and reading skills are interlinked. However, most have focused on phonological awareness as a risk factor for dyslexia, although there is considerable ...