Understanding Developmental Dyslexia: Linking Perceptual and Cognitive Deficits to Reading Processes

• Main Author: Pierluigi Zoccolotti (auth)
• Other Authors: Peter F. de Jong (auth), Donatella Spinelli (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Neurosciences; Comorbidity; orthographic learning; Dyslexia; reading; phonology; attention deficit
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Understanding the mechanisms responsible for developmental dyslexia (DD) is a key challenge for researchers. A large literature, mostly concerned with learning to read in opaque orthographies, emphasizes phono-logical interpretations of the disturbance. Other approaches focused on the visual-per-cep...