Reading and Dyslexia

✍ Scribed by Thomas Lachmann, Tina Weis

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 338
• Series: Literacy Studies 16
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

In this volume a group of well-known experts of the field cover topics ranging from basic visual and auditory information processing to higher order cognition in reading and dyslexia, from basic research to remediation approaches and from well-established theories to new hypotheses about reading acquisition and causes for its failure.
Reading is one of the most intriguing feats human evolution ever came up with. There is no evolutionary basis for reading as such; reading is secondary to language and the result of a complex skill acquisition at the end of which almost all pre-existing cognitive functions are mobilized. With the right instruction and practice most people learn this skill smoothly. Some, however, have problems, despite same opportunities and general cognitive abilities. This developmental dyslexia results from a neuro developmental disorder leading to deficits in reading relevant information processing. But what deficits are these, and can they be trained?

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter ....Pages i-xv
Front Matter ....Pages 1-1
The Methods Issue Revisited: From a Developmental and a Socio-Cultural-Political Perspective (José Morais)....Pages 3-25
Domain Generality and Specificity of Statistical Learning and its Relation with Reading Ability (Yi-Hui Hung, Stephen J. Frost, Kenneth R. Pugh)....Pages 27-49
Searching for the Orthographic Lexicon in the Visual Word Form Area (Heinz Wimmer, Philipp Ludersdorfer)....Pages 51-63
Simple View of Reading (SVR) in Different Orthographies: Seeing the Forest with the Trees (R. Malatesha Joshi)....Pages 65-74
Front Matter ....Pages 75-75
The Role of Rodent Models in Dyslexia Research: Understanding the Brain, Sex Differences, Lateralization, and Behavior (Albert M. Galaburda)....Pages 77-96
The Magnocellular Theory of Developmental Dyslexia (John Stein)....Pages 97-128
Auditory Processing in Developmental Dyslexia: Some Considerations and Challenges (Caroline Witton, Joel B. Talcott)....Pages 129-140
From Auditory Rhythm Processing to Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion: How Neural Oscillations Can Shed Light on Developmental Dyslexia (Marie Lallier, Mikel Lizarazu, Nicola Molinaro, Mathieu Bourguignon, Paula Ríos-López, Manuel Carreiras)....Pages 141-157
Dyslexia: A Failure in Attaining Expert-Level Reading Due to Poor Formation of Auditory Predictions (Sagi Jaffe-Dax, Luba Daikhin, Merav Ahissar)....Pages 159-175
The “Rowdy Classroom Problem” in Children with Dyslexia: A Review (Axelle Calcus, Ingrid Hoonhorst, Cécile Colin, Paul Deltenre, Régine Kolinsky)....Pages 177-205
From Subtypes to Taxons: Identifying Distinctive Profiles of Reading Development in Children (Adrian P. Burgess, Caroline Witton, Laura Shapiro, Joel B. Talcott)....Pages 207-227
Procedural Learning, Dyslexia and Delayed Neural Commitment (Roderick I. Nicolson, Angela J. Fawcett)....Pages 229-263
Reading and Dyslexia: The Functional Coordination Framework (Thomas Lachmann)....Pages 265-290
Front Matter ....Pages 291-291
The Birth of Neuroplasticity Interventions: A Twenty Year Perspective (Paula Tallal, William Jenkins)....Pages 293-316
Effects of the Computer-Based Training Program Lautarium on Phonological Awareness and Reading and Spelling Abilities in German Second-Graders (Maria Klatte, Kirstin Bergström, Claudia Steinbrink, Marita Konerding, Thomas Lachmann)....Pages 317-333

✦ Subjects

Education; Language Education; Cognitive Linguistics; Cognitive Psychology; Psycholinguistics