ReviewBrain sciences2023
Theories about Developmental Dyslexia.
Review in Brain sciences, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 13 papers.
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- Proprioception and Sensorimotor Regulation Across the Day-Night Cycle in Developmental Dyslexia: Toward an Embodied Perspective.Brain sciences · 2026Review
- Functional Networks in Developmental Dyslexia: Auditory Discrimination of Words and Pseudowords.NeuroSci · 2026Article
- Linking Attention Deficits to Difficulties in the Comprehension of Complex Syntax in Dyslexia.Dyslexia (Chichester, England) · 2026Article
- Intrinsic Functional Connectivity Network in Children with Dyslexia: An Extension Study on Novel Cognitive-Motor Training.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Heterogeneity in English as a Foreign Language: Skills Among Norwegian 6th Graders with Dyslexia-The Impact of Language Comprehension and Processing Profiles.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Multimodal investigation of the neurocognitive deficits underlying dyslexia in adulthood.Cerebral cortex (New York, N.Y. : 1991) · 2025Article
- Brain Laterality in Dyslexia Seen during Literacy Development and Early Training.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Oculomotor Patterns in Children with Poor Reading Abilities Measured Using the Development Eye Movement Test.Journal of clinical medicine · 2024Article
- POU6F2, a risk factor for glaucoma, myopia and dyslexia, labels specific populations of retinal ganglion cells.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Visuo-Attentional and Phonological Deficits Explored in French Students with Dyslexia: Eye Movements Recorded during a Phonological Lexical Decision Task.Neurology international · 2024Article
- Genetic Modifications of Developmental Dyslexia and Its Representation Using In Vivo, In Vitro Model.Global medical genetics · 2024Review
- Dyslexia: Causes and Concomitant Impairments.Brain sciences · 2023Review
- Sensory temporal sampling in time: an integrated model of the TSF and neural noise hypothesis as an etiological pathway for dyslexia.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2023Review
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Abstract
Despite proving its usefulness for over a century, the concept of developmental dyslexia (DD) is currently in severe disarray because of the recent introduction of the phonological theory of its causation. Since mastering the phonological principle is essential for all reading, failure to do so cannot be used to distinguish DD from the many other causes of such failure. To overcome this problem, many new psychological, signal detection, and neurological theories have been introduced recently. All these new theories converge on the idea that DD is fundamentally caused by impaired signalling of the timing of the visual and auditory cues that are essential for reading. These are provided by large 'magnocellular' neurones which respond rapidly to sensory transients. The evidence for this conclusion is overwhelming. Especially convincing are intervention studies that have shown that improving magnocellular function improves dyslexic children's reading, together with cohort studies that have demonstrated that the magnocellular timing deficit is present in infants who later become dyslexic, long before they begin learning to read. The converse of the magnocellular deficit in dyslexics may be that they gain parvocellular abundance. This may often impart the exceptional 'holistic' talents that have been ascribed to them and that society needs to nurture.
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