Previous research indicates that writing practice may be more beneficial than nonmotor
practice for letter learning. Here, we report a training study comparing typing, visual, and …

Reading, one of the most important cultural inventions of human society, critically depends
on posterior brain areas of the left hemisphere in proficient adult readers. In children, this left …

Do the neural circuits for reading vary across culture? Reading of visually complex writing
systems such as Chinese has been proposed to rely on areas outside the classical left …

Using magnetic source imaging, age-related changes in spatiotemporal brain activation
profiles associated with printed word recognition and phonological decoding (pseudoword …

Until some decades ago, left-handed children who attended German schools were forced to
learn to write with their right hand. To explore the long-term consequences of switching …

First and second graders who were good and poor handwriters completed three writing
tasks: writing letters of alphabet in order from memory, letter copying in a passage, and …

The present study traced the emergence of the neural circuits for reading in five-year-old
children of diverse pre-literacy ability. In the fall and winter of kindergarten, children …

In this fMRI‐study, 6‐year‐old children considered at risk for dyslexia were compared with
an age‐/gender‐matched control group for differences in brain activation when presented …

In adult readers, printed words and other letter strings activate specialized visual functions
within 200 msec, as evident from neurophysiological recordings of brain activity. These fast …

Becoming a skilled reader requires building a functional neurocircuitry for printed-language
processing that integrates with spoken-language-processing networks. In this longitudinal …