Specific learning disorders, such as dyslexia and dyscalculia, are frequently studied to
inform our understanding of cognitive development, genetic mechanisms and brain function …

The neuropsychology of dyslexia has made great strides in the last decade. In particular, a
consensus views dyslexia as a developmental disorder with a basis in the brain and in the …

The explosion in neuroscientific knowledge has profound implications for education, and we
advocate the establishment of the new discipline of 'pedagogical neuroscience'designed to …

This paper reviews what is known about developmental dyslexia at three levels of analysis:
cognitive, neurological, and genetic. It also considers the difficult problem of establishing …

Developmental dyslexia runs in families, and twin studies have confirmed that there is a
substantial genetic contribution to poor reading. The way in which discoveries in molecular …

In the present chapter, we provide a selective review of research conducted over the past
two to three decades evaluating influential theories of the basic cause (s) of developmental …

This paper provides a selective review of data on phonology, audition, vision, and learning
abilities in developmental dyslexia, with a specific focus on patterns of normal alongside …

In this review we focus on the developmental disorders of dyslexia (a disorder of reading)
and dysgraphia (a disorder of writing), considering their commonalities and differences with …

We investigated the phonological and surface subtypes of developmental dyslexia in light of
competing predictions made by two computational models of single word reading, the Dual …

Two studies investigating the cognitive phenotype of dyslexia are described. Study 1
compared three groups of English and Italian children on speed of processing tasks:(a) …