TY - JOUR
T1 - Cross-linguistic neuroimaging and dyslexia
T2 - A critical view
AU - Hadzibeganovic, Tarik
AU - van den Noort, Maurits
AU - Bosch, Peggy
AU - Perc, Matjaž
AU - van Kralingen, Rosalinde
AU - Mondt, Katrien
AU - Coltheart, Max
PY - 2010/11
Y1 - 2010/11
N2 - Recent neuro-cognitive theories of dyslexia presume that all dyslexics have the same type of brain abnormality irrespective of the particular writing system their language uses. In this article, we indicate how this presumption is inconsistent with cross-linguistic investigations of reading and dyslexia. There are two main issues. First, the information-processing requirements of reading vary greatly across different orthographies. Second, it is known that even within a single orthography there are different subtypes of dyslexia. Consequentially, it cannot be the case, not even within a single orthography let alone across orthographies, that all dyslexics have the same type of brain abnormality. Neuro-cognitive theorizing about dyslexia cannot afford to ignore these issues.
AB - Recent neuro-cognitive theories of dyslexia presume that all dyslexics have the same type of brain abnormality irrespective of the particular writing system their language uses. In this article, we indicate how this presumption is inconsistent with cross-linguistic investigations of reading and dyslexia. There are two main issues. First, the information-processing requirements of reading vary greatly across different orthographies. Second, it is known that even within a single orthography there are different subtypes of dyslexia. Consequentially, it cannot be the case, not even within a single orthography let alone across orthographies, that all dyslexics have the same type of brain abnormality. Neuro-cognitive theorizing about dyslexia cannot afford to ignore these issues.
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U2 - 10.1016/j.cortex.2010.06.011
DO - 10.1016/j.cortex.2010.06.011
M3 - Article
C2 - 20684952
AN - SCOPUS:77958153987
VL - 46
SP - 1312
EP - 1316
JO - Cortex
JF - Cortex
SN - 0010-9452
IS - 10
ER -