Books in the Neuropsychology and Cognition series

This highly interdisciplinary project presents new results and the state of the art of knowledge in the psychology and neurophysiology of language, reading and dyslexia. The book grew out of the Basic Mechanisms of Language and Language Disorders conference (Leipzig, Sept.

This highly interdisciplinary project presents new results and the state of the art of knowledge in the psychology and neurophysiology of language, reading and dyslexia. The book grew out of the Basic Mechanisms of Language and Language Disorders conference (Leipzig, Sept.

This book is unique in that it brings together in one place an account of recent advances in our understanding of the biology of dyslexia. Building on recent advances in the understanding of the cognitive phenotype of dyslexia, these authors present new data on both the etiology and brain mechanisms underlying that phenotype.

Interestingly, the study of de velopmental reading disability also began to receive attention at about the same time when Pringle Morgan described the case of a 14-year-old boy who had great difficulty in reading and writing. Disorders of spoken language and written language are two areas that have been extensively addressed by these articles.