A domain-general framework for interpreting data on human functional brain development is
presented. Assumptions underlying the general theory and predictions derived from it are …

Part of human cortex is specialized for cultural domains such as reading and arithmetic,
whose invention is too recent to have influenced the evolution of our species …

How does education affect cortical organization? All literate adults possess a region
specialized for letter strings, the visual word form area (VWFA), within the mosaic of ventral …

" Brings together the cognitive, the cultural, and the neurological in an elegant, compelling
narrative. A revelatory work."--Oliver Sacks, MD The act of reading is so easily taken for …

Does literacy improve brain function? Does it also entail losses? Using functional magnetic
resonance imaging, we measured brain responses to spoken and written language, visual …

To the extent that selective attention skills are relevant for academic foundations and
amenable to training, they represent an important focus for the field of education. Here …

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience, 4th Edition, is a revised and updated edition of the
landmark text focusing on the development of brain and behaviour during infancy …

The acquisition of reading skills is a major landmark process in a human's cognitive
development. On the neural level, a new functional network develops during this time, as …

The right hemispheric lateralization of face recognition, which is well documented and
appears to be specific to the human species, remains a scientific mystery. According to a …

Visual word recognition has been proposed to rely on a hierarchy of increasingly complex
neuronal detectors, from individual letters to bigrams and morphemes. We used fMRI to test …