On the Anglocentricities of current reading research and practice: the perils of overreliance on an" outlier" orthography.

DL Share - Psychological bulletin, 2008 - psycnet.apa.org
In this critique of current reading research and practice, the author contends that the extreme
ambiguity of English spelling-sound correspondence has confined reading science to an …

Dyslexia and the anchoring-deficit hypothesis

M Ahissar - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2007 - cell.com
The 'core deficit'of dyslexia has been characterized by different researchers in terms of either
phonological impairments or of difficulties in processing basic visual and auditory stimuli …

Writing system variation and its consequences for reading and dyslexia

PT Daniels, DL Share - Scientific Studies of Reading, 2018 - Taylor & Francis
Most current theories of reading and dyslexia derive from a relatively narrow empirical base:
research on English and a handful of other European alphabets. Furthermore, the two …

Word recognition and basic cognitive processes among reading-disabled and normal readers in Arabic

S Abu-Rabia, D Share, MS Mansour - Reading and writing, 2003 - Springer
This study investigated word identification inArabic and basic cognitive processes inreading-
disabled (RD) and normal readers of thesame chronological age, and in younger …

Auditory processing deficits in dyslexia: task or stimulus related?

K Banai, M Ahissar - Cerebral Cortex, 2006 - academic.oup.com
The nature of the fundamental deficit underlying reading disability is the subject of a long-
standing debate. We previously found that dyslexics with additional learning difficulties (D …

Poor frequency discrimination probes dyslexics with particularly impaired working memory

K Banai, M Ahissar - Audiology and Neurotology, 2004 - karger.com
Substantial difficulties in performing simple auditory discriminations were previously found in
some individuals with a specific reading disability but not in others. This high variability in …

Poor synchronization yet adequate tempo‐keeping in adults with autism

K Kasten, N Jacoby, M Ahissar - Autism Research, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Sensorimotor synchronization to external events is fundamental to social interactions. Adults
with autism spectrum condition (ASC) have difficulty with synchronization, manifested in both …

Reduced learning of sound categories in dyslexia is associated with reduced regularity-induced auditory cortex adaptation

A Gertsovski, M Ahissar - Journal of Neuroscience, 2022 - Soc Neuroscience
A main characteristic of dyslexia is poor use of sound categories. We now studied within-
session learning of new sound categories in dyslexia, behaviorally and neurally, using fMRI …

Dyslexics' faster decay of implicit memory for sounds and words is manifested in their shorter neural adaptation

S Jaffe-Dax, O Frenkel, M Ahissar - Elife, 2017 - elifesciences.org
Dyslexia is a prevalent reading disability whose underlying mechanisms are still disputed.
We studied the neural mechanisms underlying dyslexia using a simple frequency …

Syntactic skills in sentence reading comprehension among Chinese elementary school children

PP Chik, CS Ho, P Yeung, DW Chan, KK Chung… - Reading and …, 2012 - Springer
The present study examined the role of syntactic skills for reading comprehension in
Chinese. Two hundred and seventy-two Chinese children were tested on their phonological …