Dyslexia and dysgraphia: More than written language difficulties in common

DS Mather - Journal of learning disabilities, 2003 - journals.sagepub.com
A dual-task paradigm involving concurrent finger tapping and line orientation judgment was
used to investigate brain processing differences in early adolescent good readers/poor …

Letter position coding across modalities: Braille and sighted reading of sentences with jumbled words

M Perea, M Jiménez, M Martín-Suesta… - Psychonomic bulletin & …, 2015 - Springer
This article explores how letter position coding is attained during braille reading and its
implications for models of word recognition. When text is presented visually, the reading …

Attentional engagement deficits in dyslexic children

M Ruffino, AN Trussardi, S Gori, A Finzi, S Giovagnoli… - Neuropsychologia, 2010 - Elsevier
Reading acquisition requires, in addition to appropriate phonological abilities, accurate and
rapid selection of sublexical orthographic units by attentional letter string parsing. Spatio …

Encoding in the visual word form area: An fMRI adaptation study of words versus handwriting

JJS Barton, CJ Fox, A Sekunova, G Iaria - Journal of Cognitive …, 2010 - direct.mit.edu
Written texts are not just words but complex multidimensional stimuli, including aspects such
as case, font, and handwriting style, for example. Neuropsychological reports suggest that …

Functional neuroanatomy of impaired reading in dyslexia

R Salmelin, P Helenius - Scientific Studies of Reading, 2004 - Taylor & Francis
In reading tasks, an underactivation of the left inferior occipitotemporal cortex in dyslexia
seems to be the most consistent finding both in neurophysiological and hemodynamic …

Universal brain systems for recognizing word shapes and handwriting gestures during reading

K Nakamura, WJ Kuo, F Pegado… - Proceedings of the …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
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 …

Reading embossed capital letters: an fMRI study in blind and sighted individuals

H Burton, DG McLaren, RJ Sinclair - Human brain mapping, 2006 - Wiley Online Library
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 …

Beyond reading modulation: temporo-parietal tDCS alters visuo-spatial attention and motion perception in dyslexia

G Lazzaro, S Bertoni, D Menghini, F Costanzo… - Brain Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
Dyslexia is a neurodevelopmental disorder with an atypical activation of posterior left-
hemisphere brain reading networks (ie, temporo-occipital and temporo-parietal regions) and …

Reading acquisition in children: developmental processes and dyslexia-specific effects

K Chyl, B Kossowski, A Dębska, M Łuniewska… - Journal of the American …, 2019 - Elsevier
Objective Decreased activation to print in the left ventral, dorsal, and anterior pathways has
been implicated in readers with dyslexia (DRs) but also is characteristic for typical beginning …

Piecemeal recruitment of left-lateralized brain areas during reading: a spatio-functional account

J Levy, C Pernet, S Treserras, K Boulanouar, I Berry… - Neuroimage, 2008 - Elsevier
Neuroimaging studies of reading converge to suggest that linguistically elementary stimuli
are confined to the activation of bilateral posterior regions, whereas linguistically complex …