As developmental cognitive neu-roscience explores mechanisms of change at the cognitive
and neural systems level, a focus is beginning to emerge on the role of educational …

Reading Braille activates visual cortex in blind people [Burton et al., J Neurophysiol 2002;
87: 589–611; Sadato et al., Nature 1996; 380: 526–528; Sadato et al., Brain 1998; 121: 1213 …

Recent data support the idea that movements play a crucial role in letter representation and
suggest that handwriting knowledge contributes to visual recognition of letters. If so, using …

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Both logographic characters and alphabetic pinyins can be used to write words in Chinese.
Here we use fMRI to address the question of whether the written form affects brain …

In a previous fMRI study on right-handers (Rhrs), we reported that part of the left ventral
premotor cortex (BA6) was activated when alphabetical characters were passively observed …

This review focuses on the acquisition of writing motor aspects in adults, and in 5-to 12-year-
old children without learning disabilities. We first describe the behavioural aspects of adult …

The complexities of pediatric brain imaging have precluded studies that trace the neural
development of cognitive skills acquired during childhood. Using a task that isolates reading …

Behavioral, neuropsychological and neuroimaging research suggest a distributed network
that is recruited when we interact with letters. For the first time, we combine several letter …

Learning to read is associated with the appearance of an orthographically sensitive brain
region known as the visual word form area. It has been claimed that development of this …