Dyslexia: Different Brain, Different Behavior

by Valeria Csepe (Editor), Valiria Csipe (Editor)

Overview

European researchers in the neurosciences and psychology explore how processing deficits in the developing human brain can contribute to failure in reading and spelling. They are not concerned with the extent of developmental dyslexia or strategies for overcoming it, but rather with how the different brain activity measures may help to understand the complexity of language-specific and domain-general functions underlying reading, how atypical brain structures may be responsible for failures in reading performance, and how the brain activity pattern of dyslexics may change from childhood to adulthood. Readers are expected to have some background in science. Annotation ©2003 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780306477522
Publisher:	Springer-Verlag New York, LLC
Publication date:	05/28/2003
Series:	Neuropsychology and Cognition Series , #22
Pages:	212
Product dimensions:	7.02(w) x 8.96(h) x 0.72(d)

Table of Contents

1. Phonology, Learning to Read and Dyslexia: A Cross-Linguistic Analysis.- 2. Visual Processing as Revealed by ERPs: Dyslexic and Normal Readers.- 3. Auditory Event-Related Potentials in Studying Developmental Dyslexia.- 4. Brain Functions and Speech Perception in Infants at Risk for Dyslexia.- 5. Comparing Normal and Impaired Reading Using Magnetoencephalography.- 6. Structural and Functional Brain Correlates of Dyslexia: MRI and Dichotic Listening.- Author Index.