The scientific study of reading has a rich history that spans disciplines from vision science to
linguistics, psychology, cognitive neuroscience, neurology, and education. The study of …

Brain imaging offers a new technology for understanding the acquisition of reading by
children. It can contribute novel evidence concerning the key mechanisms supporting …

Functional and structural neuroimaging studies of adult readers have provided a deeper
understanding of the neural basis of reading, yet such findings also elicit new questions …

Unlike language, reading is not one of those “natural” human skills that may have evolved
under the pressure of natural selection. Rather, like tennis or chess, it is a recent cultural …

How the brain learns to read has been the subject of much neuroscience educational
research. Evidence is mounting for identifiable networks of connected neurons that are …

This manuscript focuses on neuroscience research that may have applicability for early
childhood educators. Beginning with cautions about the usefulness of neurosciences, we …

We begin this chapter by reviewing the now overwhelming and converging evidence from
many lines of investigation of the fundamental characteristics of reading and reading …

Editor's note: Few issues are as important to the future of humanity as acquiring literacy.
Brain-scanning technology and cognitive tests on a variety of subjects by one of the world's …

Reading in the Brain (Les neurones de la lecture, 2007) examined the origins of human
reading abilities in the light of contemporary cognitive neuroscience. It argued that reading …

The present work aims at demonstrating that visual training associated with the act of
reading modifies the way we perceive printed words. As reading does not train all parts of …