Brain Imaging Studies of Reading and Reading Disability

Guinevere F. Eden, Georgetown University Medical Center, highlights the importance of distinguishing between cause and consequence of dyslexia. Reading is a cultural invention and has to be learned through explicit instructions, resulting in the utilization of a variety of brain areas that were not designed specifically to read. This presentation explores how brain imaging technology has been used to reveal brain areas that are involved in word processing in typical readers and how these differ in children and adults with reading disability (e.g. dyslexia). [5/2015] [Show ID: 29515]

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[Bird.Lover]

My journey started being curious on how the brain functions with someone who has disabilities or what it's like now I'm sitting here watching this wondering what I'm gonna do tomorrow morning :0

[notguy]

I wish someone would let me be a test subject, I could probably be of great use to those who are researching dyslexia!

[misstweeter]

Thank you for posting this! I enjoyed it very much.

[DJPeterJames]

I just counted the words without meaning. Im dyslexic. Amazing test

[notguy]

OK, this long video was good.
I could not help wondering each time you said gray matter increased after additional training in reading, if your test subjects were just pour readers that needed additional training or if they were truly dyslexic? I am 45 years old and have The best parents to ever live in this world, and they spent more time and money getting me help reading than anyone I have ever heard of and none of it had any positive effect. I also had some of the cruelest teachers in the world that beat me and punish me severely to try to make me learn to read and this had no positive affect either. I have no concept of left and right and the months of the year have no order in my mind. I do something I call reading but I know it is not the same thing you call reading, mine is like cracking a secret code every time. I was in my 30s before I could read an entire sentence and have it make sense, and I have gotten even better in my 40s, these improvements happened without training

[heidiseppanen]

Thank you what a suberb lecture! Heidi Seppänen Jyväskylä University

[jejelaurent]

What do you call people who can think to do essay.For example I understand what I read but can create my own word to do essay even in my own language I translate I still can't understand.

[hananesekrane]

أحتاج ترجمة هذا الفيديو الى العربي هل من مساعدة

[JamieHumeCreative]

I don;t find the cartoon of Homer Simpson appropriate. You should know better.