The fully updated eighth edition of Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook provides
comprehensive yet accessible coverage of all the key areas in the field ranging from visual …

Reading acquisition is enabled by deep changes in the brain's visual system and language
areas, and in the links subtending their collaboration. Disruption of those plastic processes …

The present study investigated whether children with a typical dyslexia profile and children
with isolated spelling deficits show a distinct pattern of white matter alteration compared with …

The manuscript reports a study on a large sample (N= 170) of Polish speaking 8–13 year old
children, whose brain activation was measured in relation to tasks that require auditory …

" Gentry and Ouellette are cannonballing into the reading research pool, they're making
waves, and these waves are moving the field of reading forward."--From the foreward by …

The left ventral occipito-temporal (lvOT) cortex is considered to house the brain's
representation of orthography (ie, the spelling patterns of words). Because letter-sound …

As a key area in word reading, the left ventral occipitotemporal cortex is proposed for
abstract orthographic processing, and its middle part has even been labeled as the visual …

L1 studies show that the paired-associate learning (PAL) of novel pronunciations, verbal
learning, contributes to the prediction of individual differences in vocabulary, reading, and …

With effort, most literate persons can conjure more or less vague visual mental images of the
written form of words they are hearing, an ability afforded by the links between sounds …

Abstract The Visual Word Form Area (VWFA) is a key region of the brain's reading network
and its activation has been shown to be strongly associated with reading skills. Here, for the …