The acquisition of literacy transforms the human brain. By reviewing studies of illiterate
subjects, we propose specific hypotheses on how the functions of core brain systems are …

Notwithstanding rising interest, a coherent picture of the brain's representation of two
languages has not yet been achieved. In the present meta-analysis we analysed a large …

Cognitive Neuroscience of Language provides an up-to-date, wide-ranging, and
pedagogically practical survey of the most important developments in this exciting field. It …

The right hemispheric lateralization of face recognition, which is well documented and
appears to be specific to the human species, remains a scientific mystery. According to a …

Neuroimaging studies investigating bilingual processes have produced controversial results
in determining similarities versus differences between L1 and L2 neural networks. The …

Do the neural circuits for reading vary across culture? Reading of visually complex writing
systems such as Chinese has been proposed to rely on areas outside the classical left …

Obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD) is a debilitating disorder. However, existing
neuroimaging findings involving executive function and structural abnormalities in OCD …

Brain abnormalities in the reading network have been repeatedly reported in individuals
with developmental dyslexia (DD); however, it is still not totally understood where the …

Are the brain mechanisms of reading acquisition similar across writing systems? And do
similar brain anomalies underlie reading difficulties in alphabetic and ideographic reading …

How does reading expertise change the visual system? Here, we explored whether the
visual system could develop dedicated perceptual mechanisms in early and intermediate …