| Description |
1 online resource (xii, 349 pages) |
| Contents |
Neural constraints on a functional architecture for word recognition / Jonathan Grainger and Phillip Holcomb -- Features are fundamental in word recognition / Kristen Pammer -- Semantic asymmetries must originate in a visual asymmetry / Carol Whitney -- The functional neuroanatomy of reading / Nicola Brunswick -- Neural coding of written words in the visual word form area / Stanislas Dehaene and Laurent Cohen -- The neural bases of reading : universals and writing system variations / Charles Perfetti [and others] -- Functional neuroanatomy of reading in Japanese : language-specific exploitation of the visual word form system in the left occipitotemporal cortex / Kimihiro Nakamura -- Visual word recognition : the first 500 milliseconds, recent insights from magnetoencephalography / Piers L. Cornelissen, Morten L. Kringelbach, and Peter C. Hansen -- Anatomical and functional correlates of acquired peripheral dyslexias / Laurent Cohen, Fabien Vinckier, and Stanislas Dehaene -- Neural correlates of the cognitive processes underlying reading : evidence from magnetic resonance perfusion imaging / Argye E. Hillis -- Mapping the word reading circuitry in skilled and disabled readers / Kenneth R. Pugh [and others] -- The reading networks and dyslexia / John Stein |
| Summary |
The scientific understanding of the neural basis of reading in the normal brain is underdeveloped. A better understanding of normal reading processes could help individuals with developmental dyslexia and those with reading disabilities gained through injury or disease |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Reading disability.
|
|
Neurosciences.
|
|
Neurosciences
|
|
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Hearing & Speech.
|
|
MEDICAL -- Audiology & Speech Pathology.
|
|
Neurosciences
|
|
Reading disability
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| Author |
Cornelissen, Piers L.
|
| LC no. |
2009030431 |
| ISBN |
9780199719846 |
|
0199719845 |
|
9780199863747 |
|
0199863741 |
|
