Children with developmental dyslexia show reading impairment compared to their peers,
despite being matched on IQ, socio-economic background, and educational opportunities …

Developmental dyslexia is defined as an unexpected difficulty in reading in children and
adults who otherwise possess the intelligence and motivation considered necessary for …

Until recently, many thought developmental dyslexia was a behavioral disorder that primarily
affected reading. In fact, it is a partly heritable condition, the clinical manifestations of which …

Background: Neuroimaging offers unique opportunities for understanding the acquisition of
reading by children and for unravelling the mystery of developmental dyslexia. Here, I …

Developmental dyslexics, individuals with an unexplained difficulty reading, have been
shown to have deficits in phonological processing—the awareness of the sound structure of …

Converging evidence from a number of lines of investigation indicates that dyslexia
represents a disorder within the language system and more specifically within a particular …

Many people doubt that a specific disorder of reading (dyslexia) even exists, let alone that it
may have a perceptual basis. However, a high proportion of children whose reading is …

Some visual processing deficits in developmental dyslexia have been attributed to
abnormalities in the subcortical M stream and/or the cortical dorsal stream of the visual …

A review of the neurophysiological literature suggests that the magnocellular pathway has
adequate spatial-frequency and contrast sensitivity to perceive text under normal contrast …

The term dyslexia originated in 1887 when an ophthalmologist described the difficulty of
learning to read. After more than a century of research, we still do not know the etiology of …