I briefly review studies that examine the differential effects of orthography in skilled readers
of English, Hebrew, and Arabic, and suggest that the manner in which specific orthographies …

The representation of meaning by words is the basis of the human linguistic ability. Spoken
words have an underlying phonologic structure that is formed primarily by combining a small …

Orthographies differ from one another in terms of their scripts and in the specifics of the
mapping from script to linguistic unit. Orthographic depth, the complexity of the mapping from …

Brain plasticity implies that readers of different orthographies can have different reading
networks. Theoretical models suggest that reading acquisition in transparent orthographies …

Any theory of the relation of reading processes to orthography must be able to account for
the reading of Chinese, an orthography used by more people than any other in the world …

Originally published in 1984, the previous two decades had seen a rebirth of psychological
interest in the process of reading. Attention had increasingly been directed to aspects of …

Orthographic systems vary dramatically in the extent to which they encode a language's
phonological and lexico-semantic structure. Studies of the effects of orthographic …

Objective: This longitudinal study investigates whether reading strategies are influenced by
the orthographic depth of languages, specifically Spanish or Cantonese, acquired through …

How do human cultural inventions such as reading result in neural re-organization? In this
first longitudinal study with young completely illiterate adult participants, we measured brain …

This chapter provides an overview of psychological research that has helped to resolve the
long history of conflict about the most effective way to teach children how to read in …