| Description |
252 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm |
| Series |
Neuropsychology and cognition ; v. 4 |
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Neuropsychology and cognition ; 4
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| Contents |
Genetic and Neurological Influences on Reading Disability: An Overview -- Pt. 1. Genetics -- Risk for Reading Disability as a Function of Parental History in Three Family Studies -- Antecedents to Reading Disability: Preschool Language Development and Literacy Experiences of Children from Dyslexic Families -- Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Word Recognition and Process Measures in the Colorado Reading Project -- Which Aspects of Processing Text Mediate Genetic Effects? -- Genetic Etiology of Spelling Deficits in the Colorado and London Twin Studies of Reading Disability -- Screening for Multiple Genes Influencing Dyslexia -- Multiple Regression Analysis of Sib-Pair Data on Reading to Detect Quantitative Trait Loci -- Cognitive and Academic Skills in Children with Sex Chromosome Abnormalities -- Pt. 2. Neurology / Neuropsychology -- Planum Temporale Asymmetry: In-Vivo Morphometry Affords a New Perspective for Neuro-Behavioral Research -- Developmental Dyslexia, Neurolinguistic Theory and Deviations in Brain Morphology -- The Neuropathology of Developmental Dysphasia: Behavioral, Morphological, and Physiological Evidence for a Pervasive Temporal Processing Disorder -- Investigation of Abnormal Left Temporal Functioning in Dyslexia Through rCBF, Auditory Evoked Potentials, and Positron Emisson Tomography -- Cerebral Laterality in Dyslexic Children: Implications for Phonological Word Decoding Deficits -- Vocabulary Acquisition and Reading Ability -- Pt. 3. Discussion -- Observations from the Sidelines -- Hemispheric Specialisation and Dyslexia |
| Analysis |
Learning disorders Role of Genetics |
| Notes |
"Reprinted from Reading and writing, volume 3, nos. 3-4 (1991)." |
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Based on the XVI International Rodin Remediation Scientific Conference held in Boulder, Colo., in Sept. 1990--p. [3] |
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Pages also numbered 192-440 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references |
| Subject |
Dyslexia -- Genetic aspects.
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Neuropsychiatry.
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Reading disability -- Genetic aspects.
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Reading disability.
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Dyslexia -- etiology.
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Dyslexia -- genetics.
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Neuropsychology.
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| Genre/Form |
Congress.
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| Author |
Pennington, Bruce Franklin, 1946-
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| LC no. |
92003022 |
| ISBN |
0792316061 (HB : alk. paper) |
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