Reading acquisition is enabled by deep changes in the brain's visual system and language
areas, and in the links subtending their collaboration. Disruption of those plastic processes …

With effort, most literate persons can conjure more or less vague visual mental images of the
written form of words they are hearing, an ability afforded by the links between sounds …

As first described by Francis Galton, some persons perceive vividly and automatically in their
mind's eye the written form of words that they are hearing. This phenomenon, labeled ticker …

Blind readers use a tactile reading system consisting of raised dot arrays: braille/⠃⠗⠇. How
do human brains implement reading by touch? The current study looked for signatures of …

A functional magnetic resonance imaging experiment at 3 tesla was performed to investigate
the collaborative mechanism between visuospatial processing and motor execution in …

Tickertape experience is the subjective phenomenon of routinely visualizing the
orthographic appearance of words that one hears, speaks, or thinks, like mental subtitles in …

In an age of increasing technology, the possibility that typing on a keyboard will replace
handwriting raises questions about the future usefulness of handwriting skills. Here we …

The hypothesis that an atypical hemispheric specialization is associated to developmental
dyslexia (DD) is receiving renewed interest, lending some support to Orton's theory. In this …

A longstanding debate in cognitive neuroscience pertains to the innate nature of language
development and the underlying factors that determine this faculty. We explored the neural …

Background: Letter-by-letter readers identify each letter of the word they are reading serially
in left to right order before recognising the word. When their letter naming is also impaired …