Reading and Dyslexia (eBook)

Introduction, Thomas Lachmann.- Part I: Literacy Acquisition and Skilled Reading in Different Orthographies.- The Methods Issue Revisited: From a Developmental and a Socio-Cultural-Political Perspective, José Morais.- Domain Generality and Specificity of Statistical Learning and its Relation with Reading Ability, Yi-Hui Hung, Stephen J. Frost, and Kenneth R. Pugh.- Searching for the Orthographic Lexicon in the Visual Word Form Area, Heinz Wimmer and Philipp Ludersdorfer.- Simple View of Reading (SVR) in Different Orthographies: Seeing the Forest with the Trees, R. Malatesha Joshi.- Part II: Developmental Dyslexia: From Basic Functions to Higher Order Cognition.- The Role of Rodent Models in Dyslexia Research: Understanding the Brain, Sex Differences, Lateralization, and Behavior, Albert M. Galaburda.- The Magnocellular Theory of Developmental Dyslexia, John Stein.- Auditory Processing in Developmental Dyslexia: Some Considerations and Challenges, Caroline Witton and Joel B. Talcott.- From Auditory Rhythm Processing to Grapheme-to-Phoneme Conversion: How Neural Oscillations Can Shed Light on Developmental Dyslexia, Marie Lallier, Mikel Lizarazu, Nicola Molinaro, Mathieu Bourguignon, Paula R´ıos-Lopes, and Manuel Carreiras.- Dyslexia – A Failure in Attaining Expert-Level Reading Due to Poor Formation of Auditory Predictions, Sagi Jaffe-Dax, Luba Daikhin and Merav Ahissar.- The “Rowdy Classroom Problem” in Children with Dyslexia: A Review, Axelle Calcus, Ingrid Hoonhorst, C´ecile Colin, Paul Deltenre and  R´egine Kolinsky.- From Subtypes to Taxons: Identifying Distinctive Profiles of Reading Development in Children, Adrian Burgess, Caroline Witton, Laura Shapiro, and Joel B. Talcott.- Procedural Learning, Dyslexia and Delayed Neural Commitment, Roderick I. Nicolson and Angela J. Fawcett.- Reading and Dyslexia: The Functional Coordination Framework, Thomas Lachmann.- Part III: Training and Remediation.- The Birth of Neuroplasticity Interventions: A Twenty Year Perspective, Paula Tallal and William Jenkins.- Effects of the Computer-Based Training Program Lautarium on Phonological Awareness and Reading and Spelling Abilities in German Second-Graders, Maria Klatte, Kirstin Bergst¨om, Claudia Steinbrink, Marita Konerding,and Thomas Lachmann