Children with dyslexia show cortical hyperactivation in response to increasing literacy processing demands

Children with dyslexia show cortical hyperactivation in response to increasing literacy processing demands

This fMRI study aimed to examine how differences in literacy processing demands may affect cortical activation patterns in 11- to 12-year-old children with dyslexia as compared to children with typical reading skills. 11 children with and 18 without dyslexia were assessed using a reading paradigm ba...

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Main Authors: Frøydis eMorken, Turid eHelland, Kenneth eHugdahl, Karsten eSpecht
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2014-12-01
Series:Frontiers in Psychology
Subjects:
Attention
Dyslexia
reading
sentence processing
orthography
compensatory mechanisms
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fpsyg.2014.01491/full

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