Scholarly notes and discussion: Do diVerences in brain activation challenge universal theories of dyslexia?  

Oleh:

Ziegler, Johannes C.

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Brain and Language (Full Text) vol. 98 no. 3 (2006), page 341-343.
Topik: Developmental dyslexia; Language; Reading; Brain imaging; fMRI; Phonology; Chinese; Phonological deficit
Fulltext: 98_03_Ziegler.pdf (131.86KB)

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It has been commonly agreed that developmental dyslexia in different languages has a common biological origin: a dysfunction of left posterior temporal brain regions dealing with phonological processes. Siok, Perfetti, Jin, and Tan (2004, Nature, 431, 71–76) challenge this biological unity theory of dyslexia: Chinese dyslexics show no deficits in posterior temporal brain regions but a functional disruption of the left middle frontal gyrus. Here, I will argue that these data do not challenge universal cognitive theories of dyslexia according to which weaknesses in the ability to process the phonological features of language are at the origin of dyslexia.

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