The current status of the magnocellular theory of developmental dyslexia

J Stein - Neuropsychologia, 2019 - Elsevier
Some people doubt that the concept of developmental dyslexia (DD) is useful at all because
the phonological weaknesses seen in DD cannot be distinguished from those found in every …

The magnocellular theory of developmental dyslexia

J Stein - Reading and dyslexia: From basic functions to higher …, 2018 - Springer
The late 19th neurological concept of dyslexia had 3 crucial elements: selectively poor
reading, with unaffected other cognitive skills and a genetic background. The contemporary …

[HTML][HTML] A probabilistic atlas of the human thalamic nuclei combining ex vivo MRI and histology

JE Iglesias, R Insausti, G Lerma-Usabiaga… - Neuroimage, 2018 - Elsevier
The human thalamus is a brain structure that comprises numerous, highly specific nuclei.
Since these nuclei are known to have different functions and to be connected to different …

Multiple causal links between magnocellular–dorsal pathway deficit and developmental dyslexia

S Gori, AR Seitz, L Ronconi, S Franceschini… - Cerebral …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Although impaired auditory–phonological processing is the most popular explanation of
developmental dyslexia (DD), the literature shows that the combination of several causes …

[HTML][HTML] How the visual aspects can be crucial in reading acquisition: The intriguing case of crowding and developmental dyslexia

S Gori, A Facoetti - Journal of vision, 2015 - iovs.arvojournals.org
Developmental dyslexia (DD) is the most common neurodevelopmental disorder (about
10% of children across cultures) characterized by severe difficulties in learning to read …

[HTML][HTML] What is developmental dyslexia?

J Stein - Brain sciences, 2018 - mdpi.com
Until the 1950s, developmental dyslexia was defined as a hereditary visual disability,
selectively affecting reading without compromising oral or non-verbal reasoning skills. This …

[HTML][HTML] Neural correlates of phonological, orthographic and semantic reading processing in dyslexia

PM Paz-Alonso, M Oliver, G Lerma-Usabiaga… - NeuroImage: Clinical, 2018 - Elsevier
Developmental dyslexia is one of the most prevalent learning disabilities, thought to be
associated with dysfunction in the neural systems underlying typical reading acquisition …

Visual attention and neural oscillations in reading and dyslexia: Are they possible targets for remediation?

TR Vidyasagar - Neuropsychologia, 2019 - Elsevier
After decades of finding a range of cognitive functions both in visual and phonological
domains that correlate with reading performance, there are in recent years attempts to solve …

Visual motion and decision-making in dyslexia: Reduced accumulation of sensory evidence and related neural dynamics

C Manning, CD Hassall, LT Hunt… - Journal of …, 2022 - Soc Neuroscience
Children with and without dyslexia differ in their behavioral responses to visual information,
particularly when required to pool dynamic signals over space and time. Importantly …

[HTML][HTML] Altered structural connectivity of the left visual thalamus in developmental dyslexia

C Müller-Axt, A Anwander, K von Kriegstein - Current Biology, 2017 - cell.com
Developmental dyslexia is a highly prevalent reading disorder affecting about 5%–10% of
children [1]. It is characterized by slow and/or inaccurate word recognition skills as well as by …