Converging Methods for Understanding Reading and Dyslexia

by Raymond M. Klein and Patricia A. McMullen (Eds.)

• ISBN13: 9780262112475
• ISBN10: 0262112477
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-11-12
• Publisher: Bradford Books

Summary

In the information age, reading is one of the most important cognitive skills an individual acquires. A scientific understanding of this skill is important to help optimize its acquisition and performance. This book offers an interdisciplinary look at the acquisition, loss, and remediation of normal reading processes. Its two main goals are to illustrate, through state-of-the-art examples, various approaches used by scientists to understand the complex skill of reading and its breakdown, and to stimulate innovative research strategies that combine these methods. The book is divided into five sections: normal adult reading and its development, developmental dyslexia, varieties of brain- damaged reading, neuroimaging, and computational modeling. Contributors: Marlene Behrmann, Derek Besner, Lori Buchanan, Thomas H. Carr, John C. DeFries, Jonathan B. Demb, Martha J. Farah, Helen Forsberg, John Gabrieli, Javier Gayan, Usha Goswami, Nancy Hilderbrandt, Betty Ann Levy, Maureen W. Lovett, G. E. MacKinnon, Michael E. J. Masson, Bruce D. McCandliss, Richard K. Olson, David C. Plaut, Russell A. Poldrack, Michael L. Posner, Keith Rayner.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
Introduction: The Reading Brain	1	(22)
Raymond M. Klein
Patricia McMullen
Normal Adult Reading and Its Development
What Have We Learned about Eye Movements during Reading?	23	(34)
Keith Rayner
Integrating Orthographic and Phonological Knowledge as Reading Develops: Onsets, Rimes, and Analogies in Children's Reading	57	(20)
Usha Goswami
Whole Words, Segments, and Meaning: Approaches to Reading Education	77	(34)
Betty Ann Levy
Developmental Dyslexia
Defining and Remediating the Core Deficits of Developmental Dyslexia: Lessons from Remedial Outcome Research with Reading Disabled Children	111	(22)
Maureen W. Lovett
A Behavioral-Genetic Analysis of Reading Disabilities and Component Processes	133	(20)
Richard K. Olson
Helen Datta
Javier Gayan
John DeFries
Acquired Dyslexia
Pure Alexia: Underlying Mechanisms and Remediation	153	(38)
Marlene Behrmann
Phonological Processing in Acquired Deep Dyslexia Reexamined	191	(30)
Lori Buchanan
Nancy Hildebrandt
G.E. MacKinnon
Are there Orthography Specific Brain Regions? Neuropsychological and Computational Investigations	221	(22)
Martha J. Farah
Brain Imaging of Reading Subprocesses
Functional Neuroimaging of Word Processing in Normal and Dyslexic Readers	243	(62)
Jonathan B. Demb
Russell A. Poldrack
John D. E. Gabrieli
Brain Circuitry during Reading	305	(34)
Michael I. Posner
Bruce D. McCandliss
Computational Modeling of Reading, Dyslexia, and Remediation
Computation Modeling of Word Reading, Acquired Dyslexia, and Remediation	339	(34)
David C. Plaut
Interactive Processes in Word Identification: Modeling Context Effects in a Distributed Memory System	373	(40)
Michael. E.J.Masson
Basic Processing in Reading: Multiple Routines in Localist and Connectionist Models	413	(46)
Derek Besner
Integrating Themes in Reading Research
Trying to Understand Reading and Dyslexia: Mental Chronometry, Individual Differences, Cognitive Neuroscience and the Impact of Instruction as Converging Sources of Evidence	459	(34)
Thomas H. Carr
Author Index	493	(18)
Subject Index	511	(12)
Contributors	523