In a now-classic article published a couple of decades ago (Brain, 2000; 123: 2373–2399), I
proposed an “extended temporal processing deficit hypothesis of dyslexia”, suggesting that …

A substantial proportion of children struggle to learn to read. This not only impairs their
academic achievement, but increases their risk of social, emotional, and mental health …

To the best of our knowledge, the first person to suggest that there are different types of
developmental dyslexia was the educational psychologist Helmer Myklebust. In Myklebust …

The self‐teaching hypothesis describes how children progress toward skilled sight‐word
reading. It proposes that children do this via phonological recoding with assistance from …

Despite decades of research on reading, including the relatively recent contributions of
neuroimaging and electrophysiology, identifying selective representations of whole visual …

In this study we investigated the neural correlates of acquired reading disorders through an
anatomo-correlative procedure of the lesions of 59 focal brain damaged patients suffering …

Dehaene (in Reading in the Brain) reviews and finds support for the phonological deficit
hypothesis of developmental dyslexia, which proposes that dyslexics have a basic deficit in …

One of the central processes in language is lexical retrieval, the process of getting from a
concept to a spoken word. This process became one of the central targets for researchers of …

We report the first three cases of selective developmental letter position dyslexia in English.
Although the parents and teachers of the children were concerned about these children's …

Attentional dyslexia is a reading deficit in which letters migrate between neighboring words,
but are correctly identified and keep their correct relative position within the word. Thus, for …