On the Anglocentricities of current reading research and practice: the perils of overreliance on an" outlier" orthography.

DL Share - Psychological bulletin, 2008 - psycnet.apa.org
In this critique of current reading research and practice, the author contends that the extreme
ambiguity of English spelling-sound correspondence has confined reading science to an …

The neurocognitive basis of reading single words as seen through early latency ERPs: a model of converging pathways

J Dien - Biological psychology, 2009 - Elsevier
This paper first provides a brief review of the functional neuroanatomy of reading single
words, focusing on the lexical and phonological routes. Next, early (defined as peaking prior …

Developmental dyslexia: The visual attention span deficit hypothesis

ML Bosse, MJ Tainturier, S Valdois - Cognition, 2007 - Elsevier
The visual attention (VA) span is defined as the amount of distinct visual elements which can
be processed in parallel in a multi-element array. Both recent empirical data and theoretical …

Influence of the visual attention span on child reading performance: a cross‐sectional study

ML Bosse, S Valdois - Journal of research in reading, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The visual attention (VA) span deficit hypothesis was found successfully to account for
variability in developmental dyslexia (Bosse, Tainturier & Valdois, 2007). We conducted a …

Reading normal and degraded words: Contribution of the dorsal and ventral visual pathways

L Cohen, S Dehaene, F Vinckier, A Jobert, A Montavont - Neuroimage, 2008 - Elsevier
Fast, parallel word recognition, in expert readers, relies on sectors of the left ventral occipito-
temporal pathway collectively known as the visual word form area. This expertise is thought …

[HTML][HTML] The eye movements of dyslexic children during reading and visual search: impact of the visual attention span

C Prado, M Dubois, S Valdois - Vision research, 2007 - Elsevier
The eye movements of 14 French dyslexic children having a VA span reduction and 14
normal readers were compared in two tasks of visual search and text reading. The dyslexic …

Reading the reading brain: a new meta-analysis of functional imaging data on reading

I Cattinelli, NA Borghese, M Gallucci… - Journal of neurolinguistics, 2013 - Elsevier
Over the last 20 years, reading has been the focus of much research using functional
imaging. A formal assessment of the implications of this work for a more general …

Words in context: The effects of length, frequency, and predictability on brain responses during natural reading

S Schuster, S Hawelka, F Hutzler, M Kronbichler… - Cerebral …, 2016 - academic.oup.com
Word length, frequency, and predictability count among the most influential variables during
reading. Their effects are well-documented in eye movement studies, but pertinent evidence …

Visual spatial attention and speech segmentation are both impaired in preschoolers at familial risk for developmental dyslexia

A Facoetti, N Corradi, M Ruffino, S Gori, M Zorzi - Dyslexia, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Phonological skills are foundational of reading acquisition and impaired phonological
processing is widely assumed to characterize dyslexic individuals. However, reading by …

The neurotopography of written word production: an fMRI investigation of the distribution of sensitivity to length and frequency

B Rapp, O Dufor - Journal of cognitive neuroscience, 2011 - direct.mit.edu
This research is directed at charting the neurotopography of the component processes of the
spelling system by using fMRI to identify the neural substrates that are sensitive to the factors …