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Title How children learn to read : current issues and new directions in the integration of cognition, neurobiology and genetics of reading and dyslexia research and practice / edited by Ken Pugh and Peggy McCardle
Published New York ; London : Psychology Press, 2009

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Description xxxiii, 343 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series The extraordinary brain series
Extraordinary brain series.
Contents 1. Mapping the word reading circuitry in skilled and disabled readers/ Frost ... [et al.] -- 2. The brain and developmental dyslexia: genes, anatomy and behavior/ Rosen ... [et al.] -- 3. A road less traveled: from dyslexia research lab to school front lines; how bridging the researcher-educator chasm, applying lessons of cerebrodiversity and exploring talent can advance undertanding of dyslexia/ Sherman and Cowen -- 4. Recent methodological advances in the analysis of develpmental data: an introduction to growth mixture models/ Francis, Fletcher and Morris -- 5. Tools for multimodal imaging/ Mencl, Frost and Pugh -- 6. Computational modeling and the neural bases of reading and reading disorders/ Rueckl and Seidenberg -- 7. The devil is i the details: decoding the genetics of reading/ Grigorenko and Naples --
8. Understanding the nature of the phonological deficit/ Ramus and Szenkovits -- 9. Visual word recognition: insights from MEG and implications for developmental dyslexia/ Cornelissen -- 10. Reading comprehension: cognition and neuroimaging/ Cutting, Eason, Young and Alberstadt -- 11. Reconciling strong genetic and strong environmental influences on individual differences and deficits in reading ability/ Olson, Byrne and Samuelsson -- 12. Reading in Hebrew versus reading in English: is there a qualitative difference?/ Frost -- 13. Reading remddeiation: state of the art/ Foorman and Al Otaiba -- 14. Remediation of reading difficulties in English-language learning students/ Siegel -- 15. How the origins of the reading brain instruct our knowledge of reading intervention/ Wolf, Gottwald, Galante, Norton and Miller -- Conclusion: Integration of methodologies in cognitive neuroscience - research, planning and policy/ Pugh and McCardle
Notes "This volume marks the 10th symposium in the Extraordinary Brain Series"--p. xiv
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Subject Cognition in children.
Dyslexia.
Reading -- Physiological aspects.
Reading, Psychology of.
Author McCardle, Peggy D.
Pugh, Ken.
LC no. 2009013220
ISBN 1848728433 (hbk. : alk. paper)
9781848728431 (hbk. : alk. paper)