The Neural Basis of Reading
Piers Cornelissen, Peter Hansen, Morten Kringelbach, and Ken Pugh
Abstract
Reading is a unique human skill, and modern societies rely extensively on literacy skills. Reading disability can therefore have a profound personal, economic, and social impact. However, the scientific understanding of the neural basis of reading in the normal brain is underdeveloped. A better understanding of normal reading processes could help individuals with developmental dyslexia and those with reading disabilities gained through injury or disease. Neuroimaging offers a unique window on reading and has allowed us to reach interesting insights about the neural correlates of reading in hea ... More
Reading is a unique human skill, and modern societies rely extensively on literacy skills. Reading disability can therefore have a profound personal, economic, and social impact. However, the scientific understanding of the neural basis of reading in the normal brain is underdeveloped. A better understanding of normal reading processes could help individuals with developmental dyslexia and those with reading disabilities gained through injury or disease. Neuroimaging offers a unique window on reading and has allowed us to reach interesting insights about the neural correlates of reading in health and disease. It has also raised questions for scientific debate. The whole field of reading research is very much a dynamic and growing one. This book provides some seasoned insights and to offer a window into various conceptual and technical issues that continue to be discussed and developed.
Keywords:
reading,
literacy,
developmental dyslexia,
neuroimaging,
word recognition,
orthographic processing
Bibliographic Information
| Print publication date: 2010 |
Print ISBN-13: 9780195300369 |
| Published to Oxford Scholarship Online: September 2010 |
DOI:10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195300369.001.0001 |
Authors
Affiliations are at time of print publication.
Piers Cornelissen, editor
University of York
Peter Hansen, editor
University of Oxford, UK, and Aarhus University, Denmark
Morten Kringelbach, editor
University of Oxford, UK, and Aarhus University, Denmark
Ken Pugh, editor
Yale University
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