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Developmental Perspectives in Written Language and Literacy: In honor of Ludo Verhoeven
Edited by Eliane Segers and Paul van den Broek
[Not in series 206] 2017
► pp. 29–49

Contributions from cognitive neuroscience to current understanding of reading acquisition and reading disability

| Haskins Laboratories, University of Connecticut, Yale University

Good reading skills are crucial for success in the modern world. Reading disability (RD) is characterized as a brain-based difficulty in acquiring fluent decoding skill, usually associated with problems in operating on the phonological structures of language. In this chapter we briefly review recent findings from our lab and others which indicate that atypically developing children fail to organize a coherent attention and reading “circuits” that in typically developing (TD) readers comes online to support skilled processing. New discoveries on how gene-brain-behavior pathways in young children interact with environment and how all this impacts language development and reading outcomes. We also provide a brief overview of the latest research from our lab and others on the brain basis of treatment and remediation of language, attention and literacy challenges.

Keywords: reading disability, neurobiology, neurocircuits, functional connectivity, neurochemistry, phonological processing deficits, print/speech convergence, remediation and neuroplasticity
Article outline
  • 1.Introduction
  • 2.Neurobiological studies of skilled reading/writing
    • 2.1Reading beyond the word: Sentence processing and text comprehension
    • 2.2Bilingualism, literacy, and the brain
    • 2.3SES, literacy, and the brain
  • 3.Neurobiological studies of atypical reading
    • 3.1Functional differences in RD
    • 3.2Structural (neuroanatomic) differences in RD
    • 3.3Neurochemistry, neural noise and links reading disability
  • 4.Developmental changes in the reading circuitry in TD and RD readers
  • 5.Remediation and neuroplasticity in reading disability
  • 6.Conclusions
  • References
Published online: 21 December 2017
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https://doi.org/10.1075/z.206.03pug
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