Deficient orthographic and phonological representations in children with dyslexia revealed by brain activation patterns

• Published in: Journal of child psychology and psychiatry Vol. 47; no. 10; pp. 1041 - 1050
• Main Authors: Cao, Fan, Bitan, Tali, Chou, Tai-Li, Burman, Douglas D., Booth, James R.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford, UK Blackwell Publishing Ltd 01.11.2006; Wiley-Blackwell
• Subjects: Adolescent; Brain - blood supply; Brain - physiopathology; Brain Hemisphere Functions; Brain imaging; Brain research; Cerebrovascular Circulation - physiology; Child; Child psychology; Children; Comparative Analysis; Control Groups; Diagnostic Tests; Dyslexia; Dyslexia - metabolism; Dyslexia - physiopathology; Female; Frontal Lobe - blood supply; Frontal Lobe - physiopathology; Functional Laterality; Functional magnetic resonance imaging; Humans; Judgment; learning difficulties; Magnetic Resonance Imaging; Male; Medical imaging; Nerve Net - blood supply; Neuroimaging; NMR; Nuclear magnetic resonance; Orthographic processing; Phonetics; Phonological processing; Phonology; Reaction Time; reading disorder; Rhyme; Spelling; Task Analysis; Temporal Lobe - blood supply; Temporal Lobe - physiopathology; Verbal Behavior; Visual Perception - physiology

Background:  The current study examined the neuro‐cognitive network of visual word rhyming judgment in 14 children with dyslexia and 14 age‐matched control children (8‐ to 14‐year‐olds) using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI). Methods:  In order to manipulate the difficulty of mapping ort...