The inferior longitudinal fasciculus (ILF) is a long-range, associative white matter pathway
that connects the occipital and temporal-occipital areas of the brain to the anterior temporal …

The acquisition of literacy transforms the human brain. By reviewing studies of illiterate
subjects, we propose specific hypotheses on how the functions of core brain systems are …

For more than one century, brain processing was mainly thought in a localizationist
framework, in which one given function was underpinned by a discrete, isolated cortical …

The anatomy of language has been investigated with PET or fMRI for more than 20years.
Here I attempt to provide an overview of the brain areas associated with heard speech …

Reading systematically activates the left lateral occipitotemporal sulcus, at a site known as
the visual word form area (VWFA). This site is reproducible across individuals/scripts …

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 …

We used quantitative, coordinate‐based meta‐analysis to objectively synthesize age‐
related commonalities and differences in brain activation patterns reported in 40 functional …

This paper elaborates on the components of a working definition of developmental dyslexia.
It follows the general format of a paper by Lyon published in Annals of Dyslexia in 1995 …

A long-standing debate in reading research is whether printed words are perceived in a
feedforward manner on the basis of orthographic information, with other representations …

Since the early days of research into language and the brain, word meaning was assumed
to be processed in specific brain regions, which most modern neuroscientists localize to the …