Subcortical cognition: The fruit below the rind

K Janacsek, TM Evans, M Kiss, L Shah… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Cognitive neuroscience has highlighted the cerebral cortex while often overlooking
subcortical structures. This cortical proclivity is found in basic and translational research on …

Recent advances in Chinese developmental dyslexia

L Zhang, Z Xia, Y Zhao, H Shu… - Annual Review of …, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Chinese developmental dyslexia (DD) research provides important insights into the
language-universal and language-specific mechanisms underlying dyslexia. In this article …

Convergent and divergent brain structural and functional abnormalities associated with developmental dyslexia

X Yan, K Jiang, H Li, Z Wang, K Perkins, F Cao - elife, 2021 - elifesciences.org
Brain abnormalities in the reading network have been repeatedly reported in individuals
with developmental dyslexia (DD); however, it is still not totally understood where the …

Does the visual word form area split in bilingual readers? A millimeter-scale 7-T fMRI study

M Zhan, C Pallier, A Agrawal, S Dehaene, L Cohen - Science advances, 2023 - science.org
In expert readers, a brain region known as the visual word form area (VWFA) is highly
sensitive to written words, exhibiting a posterior-to-anterior gradient of increasing sensitivity …

Minimal phrase composition revealed by intracranial recordings

E Murphy, O Woolnough, PS Rollo… - Journal of …, 2022 - Soc Neuroscience
The ability to comprehend phrases is an essential integrative property of the brain. Here, we
evaluate the neural processes that enable the transition from single-word processing to a …

Development and validation of computational thinking assessment of Chinese elementary school students

Y Li, S Xu, J Liu - Journal of Pacific Rim Psychology, 2021 - journals.sagepub.com
Recent advances in artificial intelligence have brought attention to computational thinking
(CT) in school education worldwide. However, little is known about the development of the …

Brain structure, phenotypic and genetic correlates of reading performance

A Carrión-Castillo, PM Paz-Alonso… - Nature Human …, 2023 - nature.com
Reading is an evolutionarily recent development that recruits and tunes brain circuitry
connecting primary-and language-processing regions. We investigated whether metrics of …

The brain basis of handwriting deficits in Chinese children with developmental dyslexia

Y Yang, Z Zuo, F Tam, SJ Graham, J Li… - Developmental …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abundant behavioral studies have demonstrated high comorbidity of reading and
handwriting difficulties in developmental dyslexia (DD), a neurological condition …

Beyond the Visual Word Form Area–a cognitive characterization of the left ventral occipitotemporal cortex

A Dȩbska, M Wójcik, K Chyl… - Frontiers in Human …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
The left ventral occipitotemporal cortex has been traditionally viewed as a pathway for visual
object recognition including written letters and words. Its crucial role in reading was …

Comparative research on neural dysfunction in children with dyslexia under different writing systems: A meta-analysis study

YZ Li, HY Bi - Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, 2022 - Elsevier
Developmental dyslexia is a special learning disorder which is prevalent in all languages. A
central question in dyslexia is whether the neural mechanism of their defects is universal or …