Maurer et al. 1 Biological Psychiatry: Archival Reports Neurophysiology in preschool improves behavioral prediction of reading ability throughout primary school Urs Maurer 1),2) , Kerstin Bucher 1),3) , Silvia Brem 1),4) , Rosmarie Benz 1) , Felicitas Kranz 1) , Enrico Schulz 1),5) , Sanne van der Mark 3) , Hans-Christoph Steinhausen 1),6),7) , Daniel Brandeis 1),8),9) 1) Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland 2) Sackler Institute for Developmental Psychobiology, Weill Medical College of Cornell University, New York, USA 3) MR-Center, University Children's Hospital, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland 4) Agora Center, University of Jyväskylä, Jyväskylä, Finland 5) Department of Neurology, Technische Universität München, München, Germany 6) Child and Adolescent Clinical Psychology, University of Basel, Basel, Switzerland 7) Aalborg Psychiatric Hospital, Aarhus University Hospital, Aalborg, Denmark 8) Center for Integrative Human Physiology, University of Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland 9) Central Institute of Mental Health, Mannheim, Germany Correspondence to: Daniel Brandeis, Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Brainmapping Research, Neumünsterallee 9, CH-8032 Zurich, Switzerland, phone: +41 43 499 2763, fax: +41 43 499 2604, E-mail: brandeis@kjpd.uzh.ch Keywords: dyslexia; reading; prediction; EEG; ERP; neurophsysiology