Reading: The confluence of vision and language

JD Yeatman, AL White - Annual Review of Vision Science, 2021 - annualreviews.org
The scientific study of reading has a rich history that spans disciplines from vision science to
linguistics, psychology, cognitive neuroscience, neurology, and education. The study of …

Diagnosing the neural circuitry of reading

BA Wandell, RK Le - Neuron, 2017 - cell.com
We summarize the current state of knowledge of the brain's reading circuits, and then we
describe opportunities to use quantitative and reproducible methods for diagnosing these …

Bridging sensory and language theories of dyslexia: Toward a multifactorial model

G O'Brien, JD Yeatman - Developmental Science, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Competing theories of dyslexia posit that reading difficulties arise from impaired visual,
auditory, phonological, or statistical learning mechanisms. Importantly, many theories posit …

Optimizing text for an individual's visual system: The contribution of visual crowding to reading difficulties

SJ Joo, AL White, DJ Strodtman, JD Yeatman - Cortex, 2018 - Elsevier
Reading is a complex process that involves low-level visual processing, phonological
processing, and higher-level semantic processing. Given that skilled reading requires …

Visual motion and decision-making in dyslexia: Reduced accumulation of sensory evidence and related neural dynamics

C Manning, CD Hassall, LT Hunt… - Journal of …, 2022 - Soc Neuroscience
Children with and without dyslexia differ in their behavioral responses to visual information,
particularly when required to pool dynamic signals over space and time. Importantly …

Reduced structural connectivity between left auditory thalamus and the motion-sensitive planum temporale in developmental dyslexia

N Tschentscher, A Ruisinger, H Blank… - Journal of …, 2019 - Soc Neuroscience
Developmental dyslexia is characterized by the inability to acquire typical reading and
writing skills. Dyslexia has been frequently linked to cerebral cortex alterations; however …

Rapid online assessment of reading ability

JD Yeatman, KA Tang, PM Donnelly, M Yablonski… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
An accurate model of the factors that contribute to individual differences in reading ability
depends on data collection in large, diverse and representative samples of research …

Meta‐analytic findings reveal lower means but higher variances in visuospatial ability in dyslexia

R Chamberlain, N Brunswick, J Siev… - British Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Conflicting empirical and theoretical accounts suggest that dyslexia is associated with either
average, enhanced, or impoverished high‐level visuospatial processing relative to controls …

Success is not the entire story for a scientific theory: The case of the Phonological Deficit Theory of dyslexia

P Zoccolotti - Brain Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
In a recent paper, Share discussed four different “Common Misconceptions about the
Phonological Deficit Theory of Dyslexia” and described this theory as “a model of true …

Reading ability and phoneme categorization

GE O'Brien, DR McCloy, EC Kubota, JD Yeatman - Scientific Reports, 2018 - nature.com
Dyslexia is associated with abnormal performance on many auditory psychophysics tasks,
particularly those involving the categorization of speech sounds. However, it is debated …