ArticleCurrent opinion in behavioral sciences2016
Integrating MRI brain imaging studies of pre-reading children with current theories of developmental dyslexia: A review and quantitative meta-analysis.
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- Shared and Unique Connectivity Signatures of Reading and Language Deficits.Journal of cognitive neuroscience · 2026Article
- Prenatal brain connectivity and postnatal language: how familial risk and prenatal speech exposure shape early language skills.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Cognitive Training Combined with Multifocal tDCS over the Reading Network Improves Reading Performance: A Case of Severe Dyslexia.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Impact of Prematurity and Neonatal Complications on the Development of Dyslexia.International journal of developmental neuroscience : the official journal of the International Society for Developmental Neuroscience · 2025Article
- On the Effects of Non-Invasive Brain Stimulation Techniques on Developmental Dyslexia: A Systematic Review of Randomized Controlled Trials.Iranian journal of psychiatry · 2025Review
- The shared genetic architecture and evolution of human language and musical rhythm.Nature human behaviour · 2025Article
- Distinct impact modes of polygenic disposition to dyslexia in the adult brain.Science advances · 2024Article
- Unique longitudinal contributions of sulcal interruptions to reading acquisition in children.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2024Article
- Exploring brain plasticity in developmental dyslexia through implicit sequence learning.NPJ science of learning · 2024Article
- Developmental dyslexia susceptibility genes DNAAF4, DCDC2, and NRSN1 are associated with brain function in fluently reading adolescents and young adults.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2024Article
- Will you read how I will read? Naturalistic fMRI predictors of emergent reading.Neuropsychologia · 2024Article
- Dyslexia, the Amsterdam Way.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Review
- Age-related changes in individuals with and without reading disability: Behavioral and fMRI evidence.Imaging neuroscience (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2024Article
- Inter-subject correlation during long narratives reveals widespread neural correlates of reading ability.NeuroImage · 2023Article
- The shared genetic architecture and evolution of human language and musical rhythm.bioRxiv : the preprint server for biology · 2023Article
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Abstract
The neurobiological substrates that cause people with dyslexia to experience difficulty in acquiring accurate and fluent reading skills are still largely unknown. Although structural and functional brain anomalies associated with dyslexia have been reported in adults and school-age children, these anomalies may represent differences in reading experience rather than the etiology of dyslexia. Conducting MRI studies of pre-readers at risk for dyslexia is one approach that enables us to identify brain alterations that exist before differences in reading experience emerge. The current review summarizes MRI studies that examine brain differences associated with risk for dyslexia in children before reading instruction and meta-analyzes these studies. In order to link these findings with current etiological theories of dyslexia, we focus on studies that take a modular perspective rather than a network approach. Although some of the observed differences in pre-readers at risk for dyslexia may still be shaped by language experiences during the first years of life, such studies underscore the existence of reading-related brain anomalies prior to reading onset and could eventually lead to earlier and more precise diagnosis and treatment of dyslexia.
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