Highlights•Neuroimaging is identifying brain differences related to causes of dyslexia.•Brain
bases of specific aspects of dyslexia have been better identified.•Genetics may bridge study …

Five to ten per cent of school-age children fail to learn to read in spite of normal intelligence,
adequate environment and educational opportunities. Thus defined, developmental dyslexia …

This chapter outlines i) genetic, sensory, motor and psychological evidence that dyslexia is a
neurological syndrome affecting the development of the brain; ii) the important role of visual …

Despite the wealth of literature available on the subject of dyslexia, there is little that
explores the subject beyond a single theoretical framework. The need for a comprehensive …

Developmental dyslexia is a reading disorder—but what are the underlying cognitive and
neurobiological mechanisms? The variety of different explanations in the literature ranges …

Competing theories of dyslexia posit that reading difficulties arise from impaired visual,
auditory, phonological, or statistical learning mechanisms. Importantly, many theories posit …

This book brings together in one volume information about the neurobiological, genetic, and
behavioral bases of reading and reading disabilities. In recent years, research on …

The present article reviews the literature on the functional neuroanatomy of developmental
dyslexia across languages and writing systems. This includes comparisons of alphabetic …

Marshall (1984) highlighted potential parallels between children with developmental
disorders of reading and adults who had acquired reading disorders. He advocated the use …

Beginning with the seminal work of Wiesel and Hubel demonstrating that monocular
deprivation leads to a reorganization of ocular dominance columns in visual cortex (eg …