Establishing the associations between speech sounds and visual scripts is an essential step
for reading acquisition. Audiovisual integration deficits have been proposed to be a cause of …

Developmental dyslexia is a neurological condition characterized by unexpected low
reading performance in people with normal intelligence and typical schooling. One …

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 …

Learning to associate auditory information of speech sounds with visual information of letters
is a first and critical step for becoming a skilled reader in alphabetic languages …

Orthographic differences across languages impose differential weighting on distinct
component processes, and consequently on different pathways during word-reading tasks …

Developmental dyslexia is characterized by the inability to acquire typical reading and
writing skills. Dyslexia has been frequently linked to cerebral cortex alterations; however …

Research studies suggest that the left hemisphere is involved in the pathophysiology of
dyslexia. Thus far, the exact location and nature of the purported lesion (s) remain a matter …

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

Cognitive theories on reading propose that the characteristics of written stimuli determine
how they are processed in the brain. However, whether the brain distinguishes between …

Background: Neuroimaging offers unique opportunities for understanding the acquisition of
reading by children and for unravelling the mystery of developmental dyslexia. Here, I …