Understanding Chinese reading is important for identifying the universal aspects of reading,
separated from those aspects that are specific to alphabetic writing or to English in …

Cross–writing system research in psychology and cognitive neuroscience has yielded
important findings regarding how a writing system's structure can influence the cognitive …

In this chapter, the authors highlight advances in the study of skilled reading, from word
identification to comprehension, emphasizing language and writing system influences, the …

Research on how the brain implements reading has produced results of remarkable
consistency, especially on the functional anatomy of single word reading. We examine the …

Research on cross-linguistic comparisons of the neural correlates of reading has
consistently found that the left middle frontal gyrus (MFG) is more involved in Chinese than …

Reading has universal properties that can be seen across the world's writing systems. The
most important one is the universal language constraint: All writing systems represent …

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 …

The connections among language, writing system, and reading are part of what confronts a
child in learning to read. We examine these connections in addressing how reading …

Language development entails four fundamental and interactive abilities: listening,
speaking, reading, and writing. Over the past four decades, a large body of evidence has …

Bilingual reading can require more than knowing two languages. Learners must acquire
also the writing conventions of their second language, which can differ in its deep mapping …