Altered brain structure in Chinese dyslexic children

L Liu, W You, W Wang, X Guo, D Peng, J Booth - Neuropsychologia, 2013 - Elsevier
Due to the logographic nature of the writing system, learning to read Chinese places heavy
demands on encoding of orthographic forms through rote memorization. Moreover …

Neural signatures of phonological deficits in Chinese developmental dyslexia

F Cao, X Yan, Z Wang, Y Liu, J Wang, GJ Spray… - Neuroimage, 2017 - Elsevier
There has been debate on whether phonological deficits explain reading difficulty in
Chinese, since Chinese is a logographic language which does not employ grapheme …

Similar alterations in brain function for phonological and semantic processing to visual characters in Chinese dyslexia

L Liu, W Wang, W You, Y Li, N Awati, X Zhao, JR Booth… - Neuropsychologia, 2012 - Elsevier
Dyslexia in alphabetic languages has been extensively investigated and suggests a central
deficit in orthography to phonology mapping in the left hemisphere. Compared to dyslexia in …

Structural and functional abnormality of the putamen in children with developmental dyslexia

Z Wang, X Yan, Y Liu, GJ Spray, Y Deng, F Cao - Neuropsychologia, 2019 - Elsevier
There is currently debate with regards to the role of phonological deficit in Chinese reading
difficulty, even though some researchers have suggested that the deficit of phonological …

Shared and Task-Specific Brain Functional Differences across Multiple Tasks in Children with Developmental Dyslexia

A Wang, X Yan, G Feng, F Cao - Neuropsychologia, 2024 - Elsevier
Different tasks have been used in examining the neural functional differences associated
with developmental dyslexia (DD), and consequently, different findings have been reported …

A structural–functional basis for dyslexia in the cortex of Chinese readers

WT Siok, Z Niu, Z Jin, CA Perfetti… - Proceedings of the …, 2008 - National Acad Sciences
Developmental dyslexia is a neurobiologically based disorder that affects≈ 5–17% of
school children and is characterized by a severe impairment in reading skill acquisition. For …

Structural abnormalities in the dyslexic brain: A meta‐analysis of voxel‐based morphometry studies

F Richlan, M Kronbichler, H Wimmer - Human brain mapping, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
We used coordinate‐based meta‐analysis in order to objectively quantify gray matter
abnormalities reported in nine Voxel‐Based Morphometry studies of developmental …

Grey matter reduction in the occipitotemporal cortex in Spanish children with dyslexia: A voxel-based morphometry study

J Adrián-Ventura, M Soriano-Ferrer… - Journal of …, 2020 - Elsevier
Structural and functional neuroimaging studies have reported brain alterations in
occipitotemporal, temporoparietal, and left frontal areas in dyslexic patients. These areas …

Structural brain alterations associated with dyslexia predate reading onset

NM Raschle, M Chang, N Gaab - Neuroimage, 2011 - Elsevier
Functional magnetic resonance imaging studies have reported reduced activation in
parietotemporal and occipitotemporal areas in adults and children with developmental …

[HTML][HTML] Cross-sectional investigation of brain volume in dyslexia

C Ligges, M Ligges, C Gaser - Frontiers in Neurology, 2022 - frontiersin.org
The goal of the study was to determine whether dyslexia is associated with differences in
local brain volume, and whether these local brain volume differences show cross-sectional …