Developmental dyslexia (DD) is a neurological-based learning disorder that affects 5-17.5%
of children. Handwriting difficulty is a prevailing symptom of dyslexia, but its neural …

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 …

Chinese offers a unique tool for testing the effects of word form on language processing
during reading. The processes of letter-mediated grapheme-to-phoneme translation and …

Fast effortless reading has been associated with the Visual Word Form Area (VWFA), a
region in the ventral visual stream that specializes in the recognition of letter strings. Several …

A recent hypothesis proposes that reading depends on writing in a logographic language–
Chinese. We present a Chinese individual (HLD) with brain damage whose profile …

Introduction Developmental dyslexia is a language-based reading disability, yet some have
reported motor impairments, usually attributed to cerebellar dysfunction. Methods Using …

We examined the hypothesis that learning to write Chinese characters influences the brain's
reading network for characters. Students from a college Chinese class learned 30 …

The left ventral occipitotemporal cortex is reliably activated by visual orthographic
stimulation and has repeatedly been found underactivated in developmental dyslexia …

Functional specialization in the brain is considered a hallmark of efficient processing. It is
therefore not surprising that there are brain areas specialized for processing letters. To …

To investigate the neural substrate of typewriting Japanese words and to detect the
difference between the neural substrate of typewriting and handwriting, we conducted a …