“…The pre-reader studies were done mainly in the United States with English language speakers (50%) [16][17][18]22], followed by 40% [20,21,23] in Belgium with Dutch speakers, and 10% [19] in Germany with German speakers, including young children under 6 years old male and females and balanced distribution (a total of 193 females to 215 males) and with a sample variation of 10 to 46 children in each comparison group. In studies with reading-stage children, 47% spoke Englishfrom the USA (45%) [25,27,[31][32][33]39,42,44,48,50,[52][53][54]56] and Canada (2%) [28,29]; 17% spoke French (the study was carried out in France [26,30,34,38,45]); 11% spoke Dutch-the studies were carried out in Belgium and Netherlands [37,41]; 8% were German; 6% spoke Mandarin-the studies were carried out in China [43] and Taiwan [36]; and 3% of studies were done with speakers of Arabic (Egypt) [35], Spanish (from Spain) [47], Portuguese (from Brazil) [49], or Italian (from Italy) [51]. In adults, the language of studies was less varied: 38% spoke English, and the studies were carried out in New Zealand [59] and the USA [62,64]; 25% spoke German (Ge...…”