Reading and Literacy Development

The paper examines reading ability in an individual lacking the left superior temporal lobe, finding no focal word selectivity in the visual word form area but distributed neural coding for orthographic processing.

The paper examines how different visual patterns affect pRF estimates in the visual cortex and reading network, finding differences in sensory and cognitive signal integration.

The paper uses SSVEP and RCA to identify distinct neural sources in visual word recognition, finding two components with different latencies and topographies.

The paper shows that lexical previewing in the parafovea predicts reading speed using MEG and eye-tracking with subliminal tagging.

This study investigates whether learning to read alters pre-lexical phonological representations in speech perception by testing adult Tamil speakers with varying literacy levels.

The paper models genetic relationships between literacy, language, and working memory skills in UK youth, identifying shared and distinct genetic factors.

This paper investigates how paternal age at childbirth affects offspring reading abilities through thalamic development in a longitudinal study of 51 children.

The paper investigates how perception and attention contribute to reading skill by comparing children with dyslexia to typical readers using behavioral and neuroimaging data.

The paper uses MEG to show that children's audiovisual brain circuits change with reading experience, detecting letter-speech sound correspondences within 400 ms.

This study examines how brain features in preschool children relate to pre-reading skills one year later using multimodal imaging and behavioral assessments.

This study extends the triangle model of reading by incorporating visual processing, demonstrating that both typical and impaired reading can be simulated, including central and peripheral dyslexia.

The paper shows that visual processing of upright bigrams correlates with reading fluency in children, suggesting specialized visual processing contributes to reading skills.

The paper simulates the emergence of the visual word form area by training a convolutional neural network to recognize written words, showing it can replicate key properties of the VWFA.

This paper investigates the genetic architecture of early vocabulary skills and their associations with later-life reading and cognitive abilities using longitudinal data from 6,524 children.

This study investigates whether automatic activation of spoken-language circuits is a hallmark of skilled reading, finding that word-selective responses correlate with reading skill.

The paper shows that a general-purpose visual learning mechanism underlies both reading and non-orthographic visual stimuli recognition.

This paper conducts a GWAS using longitudinal reading performance data to identify GARRE1 as a novel gene associated with reading disability, showing persistent effects on reading development.

The paper identifies the mid-fusiform cortex as the first region sensitive to word identity and frequency in the ventral visual pathway using intracranial recordings.

The paper investigates neural correlates of reading comprehension components in adults with and without dyslexia, finding group differences in brain activation patterns associated with fluency, comprehension, and decoding.

This study examines the neural mechanisms of reading acquisition and disabilities in French and Chinese children, finding similar brain circuits and activation patterns across writing systems.

This study identifies a universal brain signature of emerging reading in 7-year-olds across two languages, showing limited variation with differences linked to orthographic transparency.

The paper shows that white matter fascicles and cortical microstructure predict the spatial layout of reading-related responses in lateral ventral temporal cortex.

The paper investigates how parental white matter tracts, specifically IFOF, influence children's early reading development, finding that parental IFOF explains children's reading outcomes.

This study investigates dyslexia by analyzing psychophysical and language measures in children, finding that reading disability is better explained by multiple independent risk factors rather than a single core deficit.

The paper quantifies genetic amplification and innovation in language development using structural equation models, finding early vocabulary genetics explain significant variation in later cognitive and literacy skills.

This study shows that tACS at 30 Hz enhances low-gamma activity in dyslexia, improving phonemic processing and reading accuracy.

The paper examines how speech perception in noise relates to reading strategies in children, finding distinct neural correlates for lexical and sublexical reading.

The paper investigates neuronal representations of letters and letter strings in macaque monkeys and shows that IT cortex can support orthographic processing tasks similar to baboon behavior.

The paper investigates thalamic activity during reading aloud, finding lateralized gamma activity related to lexical status processing.

This paper investigates brain dynamics during irregular word reading in svPPA patients, showing increased reliance on the dorsal route when the ventral route is damaged.