Learning, skill acquisition, reading, and dyslexia

Introduction: Guinevere F. Eden and D. Lynn Flowers. Part I: Reading and Reading Development: The Role of Language:. 1. The Development of Reading across Languages: Usha Goswami. 2. Development of Ventral Stream Representations for Single Letters: Peter E. Turkeltaub, D. Lynn Flowers, Lynn G. Lyon, and Guinevere F. Eden. 3. Neural Correlates of Nouns and Verbs in Early Bilinguals: Alice Chan, Kang-Kwong Luke, Ping Li, Geng Li, Virginia Yip, Brendan Weekes, and Li Hai Tan. 4. Logographic Kanji versus Phonographic Kana in Literacy Acquisition: How Important Are Visual and Phonological Skills? : Maki S. Koyama, John F. Stein, and Peter C. Hansen. 5. Mapping Phonological Information from Auditory to Written Modality During Foreign Vocabulary Learning: Margarita Kaushanskaya and Viorica Marian. Part II: Language and Reading: The Role of Language Modality:. 6. Visual Skills and Cross-Modal Plasticity in Deaf Readers: Possible Implications for Acquiring Meaning from Print: Matthew W. G. Dye, Peter C. Hauser, and Daphne Bavelier. 7. Phonological Awareness and Verbal Short Term Memory in Deaf Individuals of Different Communication Backgrounds: Daniel Koo, Kelly Crain, Carol LaSasso and Guinevere F. Eden. 8. Signed Language and Human Action Processing: Evidence for Functional Constraints on the Human Mirror Neuron System: David Corina and Heather Knapp. Part III: Learning, Skill Acquisition, Language, and Dyslexia:. 9. Neurocognitive Basis of Implicit Learning of Sequential Structure and Its Relation to Language Processing: Christopher Conway and David Pisoni. 10. Implicit Learning and Dyslexia: Vasiliki Folia, Julia Udden, Christian Forkstam, Martin Ingvar, Peter Hagoort, and Karl Magnus Petersson. 11. Motor Sequence Learning and Developmental Dyslexia: Pierre Orban and Julien Doyon. 12. Implicit Learning in Control, Dyslexic, and Garden-Variety Poor Readers: Catherine Stoodley, Nicola Ray, Anthea Jack, and John Stein. 13. Two Forms of Implicit Learning in Young Adults with Dyslexia: Ilana Bennett, Jennifer Romano, James Howard, Jr., and Darlene Howard. 14. Impaired Serial Visual Search in Children with Developmental Dyslexia: Ruxandra Sireteanu, Claudia Goebel, Ralf Goertz, Ingeborg Werner, Magdalena Nalewajko, and Aylin Thiel. 15. Structural Correlates of Implicit Learning Deficits in Subjects with Developmental Dyslexia: Deny Menghini, Gisela Hagberg, Laura Petrosini, Marco Bozzali, Emiliano Macaluso, Carlo Caltagirone, and Stefano Vicari. 16. Cerebellar Volume and Cerebellar Metabolic Characteristics in Adults with Dyslexia: Suzanna Laycock, Iain Wilkinson, Lauren Wallis, Gail Darwent, Sarah Wonders, Angela Fawcett, Paul Griffiths, and Roderick Nicolson. 17. A Meta-analysis of Functional Neuroimaging Studies of Dyslexia: Jose Maisog, Erin Einbinder, Lynn Flowers, Peter Turkeltaub, and Guinevere Eden. Part IV: Speech, Communication, and Attention: Lessons from Other Disorders:. 18. Impact of Cerebellar Lesions on Reading and Phonological Processing: Gal Ben-Yehudah and Julie Fiez. 19. Morphosyntax and Phonological Awareness in Children with Speech Sound Disorders: Jennifer Mortimer and Susan Rvachew. 20. Brain Mechanisms for Social Perception: Lessons from Autism and Typical Development: Kevin Pelphrey and Elizabeth Carter. 21. From Loci to Networks and Back Again: Anomalies in the Study of Autism: Ralph-Axel Muller. 22. ADHD and Developmental Dyslexia: Two Pathways Leading to Impaired Learning: Guinevere Eden and Chandan Vaidya. Index of Contributors .