creators_name: Ramus, Franck
type: journalp
datestamp: 2001-08-24
lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:46
metadata_visibility: show
title: Dyslexia - Talk of two theories
ispublished: pub
subjects: cog-psy
subjects: dev-psy
subjects: neuro-ling
full_text_status: public
keywords: developmental dyslexia, vision, audition, magnocellular, phonology
abstract: Regardless of how intelligent they are, people with developmental dyslexia have difficulties in learning to read, a characteristic first described over a century ago. Dyslexia is now known to be a hereditary neurological disorder that affects a huge number of people — about 5% of the global population — but its underlying basis is still hotly debated. At two recent meetings, however, the reasons for the disagreement became clearer. 


date: 2001-07
date_type: published
publication: Nature
volume: 412
number: 6845
publisher: MacMillan
pagerange: 393-395
refereed: TRUE
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citation:   Ramus, Franck  (2001) Dyslexia - Talk of two theories.  [Journal (Paginated)]     
document_url: http://cogprints.org/1764/1/nature01.html