Dyslexia is an impairment in reading that can result from an abnormal developmental
process in the case of developmental dyslexia or cerebral insult in the case of acquired …

Georgetown Institute for Cognitive and Computational Sciences Georgetown University
Washington, DC 20007 ure, they cannot easily account for the sensory deficits in visual and …

In this chapter, we summarize the key findings that have emerged from functional
neuroimaging studies of skilled readers and individuals with developmental dyslexia. Our …

Developmental dyslexia was until recently considered to belong solely in the domain of
educational psychology. With the advent of better theories on language and reading, and …

Reading disability or dyslexia is estimated to affect approximately 2% to 8% of school-aged
children with longstanding effects evident in adulthood as well. Historically, it has been …

This article addresses the neuroimaging (CT/MRI), electrophysiological (ERP/EEG), and
postmortem evidence as to the neurological basis of dyslexia and discusses why these …

Specific word reading difficulty, commonly termed 'developmental dyslexia', refers to the low
end of the word reading skill distribution but is frequently considered to be a …

This review discusses recent cognitive neuroscience investigations into the biological bases
of developmental dyslexia, a common disorder impacting approximately 5 to 17 percent of …

Unlike the ability to speak, which has presumably evolved over hundreds of thousands of
years, the ability to read is a relatively recent development that is dependent upon both the …

The principles of cognitive neuroscience rely on correlations between variations in behavior
and associated variations in the form of the brain. Virtually all of the conventional localization …