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From Language to Reading and Reading Disability

Cognitive Functions and their Neural Basis

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Book cover Basic Functions of Language, Reading and Reading Disability

Part of the book series: Neuropsychology and Cognition ((NPCO,volume 20))

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Reading comprehension is seen as an end product of a number of subprocesses involving the mediation from visual input to phonological representation, in particular, and processes of language comprehension in general which in turn are modulated by aspects of working memory and attention. The neural basis of each of these functionally different subprocesses constituting normal reading is presented. Empirical findings and theories of reading disability are discussed with respect to a possible impairment of one or more of these subprocesses.

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Friederici, A.D., Lachmann, T. (2002). From Language to Reading and Reading Disability. In: Witruk, E., Friederici, A.D., Lachmann, T. (eds) Basic Functions of Language, Reading and Reading Disability. Neuropsychology and Cognition, vol 20. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-1011-6_2

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