This paper reviews the observations of the Jyväskylä Longitudinal Study of Dyslexia (JLD).
The JLD is a prospective family risk study in which the development of children with familial …

Phonological awareness is the ability to correctly recognize and manipulate phonological
structures. The role of phonological awareness in reading development has become evident …

Learning to read requires the acquisition of an efficient visual procedure for quickly
recognizing fine print. Thus, reading practice could induce a perceptual learning effect in …

Humans and primates can quickly recognize mirror images of previously exposed pictures.
This spontaneous mirror invariance, though advantageous for visual recognition, makes it …

In many ways, of course, the answer to the question “Are faces special?” is obvious. There is
no doubt that faces are special functionally—that is, faces provide unique information about …

A consistent finding in functional brain imaging studies of reading with dyslexia is reduced
inferior occipito-temporal activation linked to deviant processing of visual word forms. Time …

Dyslexia is a common neurobiological disorder in which a child fails to acquire typical word
reading skills despite adequate opportunity and intelligence. The visual word form area …

Reading instruction can direct attention to different unit sizes in print-to-speech map**,
ranging from grapheme-phoneme to whole-word relationships. Thus, attentional focus …

A functional region of left fusiform gyrus termed “the visual word form area”(VWFA) develops
during reading acquisition to respond more strongly to printed words than to other visual …