The anatomy of language has been investigated with PET or fMRI for more than 20years.
Here I attempt to provide an overview of the brain areas associated with heard speech …

Reading systematically activates the left lateral occipitotemporal sulcus, at a site known as
the visual word form area (VWFA). This site is reproducible across individuals/scripts …

Task-based language teaching is an approach which differs from traditional approaches by
emphasising the importance of engaging learners' natural abilities for acquiring language …

Importance Children living in poverty generally perform poorly in school, with markedly
lower standardized test scores and lower educational attainment. The longer children live in …

" Brings together the cognitive, the cultural, and the neurological in an elegant, compelling
narrative. A revelatory work."--Oliver Sacks, MD The act of reading is so easily taken for …

Literacy Beyond Text Comprehension aims to systematically investigate how readers
interpret reading tasks within a situation, and how that interpretation influences reading …

The Dyslexia Debate examines how we use the term" dyslexia" and questions its efficacy as
a diagnosis. While many believe that a diagnosis of dyslexia will shed light on a reader's …

We used quantitative, coordinate‐based meta‐analysis to objectively synthesize age‐
related commonalities and differences in brain activation patterns reported in 40 functional …

Part of human cortex is specialized for cultural domains such as reading and arithmetic,
whose invention is too recent to have influenced the evolution of our species …

The advent of functional neuroimaging has allowed tremendous advances in our
understanding of brain–language relationships, in addition to generating substantial …