Childhood learning difficulties and developmental disorders are common, but progress
toward understanding their underlying brain mechanisms has been slow. Structural …

A fundamental educational requirement of beginning reading is to learn, access, and rapidly
process associations between novel visuospatial symbols and their phonological …

Evolution fuels interindividual variability in neuroplasticity, reflected in brain anatomy and
functional connectivity of the expanding neocortical regions subserving reading ability. Such …

Given that inhibition interacts with visual temporal processing (VTP), the past evidence
regarding the influence of VTP on the Chinese character reading of children with dyslexia …

Research has shown improved reading following visual magnocellular training in
individuals with dyslexia. Many studies have demonstrated how the magnocellular pathway …

In the search for mechanisms that contribute to dyslexia, the term “attention” has been
invoked to explain performance in a variety of tasks, creating confusion since all tasks do …

Background An intronic deletion within intron 2 of the DCDC2 gene encompassing the entire
READ1 (hereafter, READ1d) has been associated in both children with developmental …

To investigate the longitudinal effects of two domain-general cognitive abilities, namely
verbal working memory and visual search skill, on Chinese reading comprehension. To …

Increasing evidence supports the presence of deficits in the visual magnocellular (M) system
in developmental dyslexia (DD). The M system is related to the fronto-parietal attentional …

An increasing number of studies show that attentional shifting is a primary contributor during
the process of learning to read. However, it remains unclear what is the relationship …