Psychological Development and Education ›› 2017, Vol. 33 ›› Issue (5): 631-640.doi: 10.16187/j.cnki.issn1001-4918.2017.05.14

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The Causal Relationship between Developmental Dyslexia and Abnormal Brain Regions:Research Paradigms and the Relevant Findings

LI Hehui, TAO Wuhai, PENG Danling, DING Guosheng   

  1. State Key Laboratory of Cognitive Neuroscience and Learning, Beijing Normal University, Beijing 100875, China
  • Online:2017-09-15 Published:2017-09-15

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Abstract: In the past decades, the neural mechanisms of dyslexia have been extensively studied, but so far it is still unknown whether the atypical regions in the dyslexic readers are the causes or the side effects of developmental dyslexia. This study reviews the recent studies investigating this issue from the aspects of research paradigms and the relevant findings, including age/reading level matched paradigm, pre-reading paradigm, longitudinal paradigm, and intervention paradigm. Each paradigm has both advantages and disadvantages in addressing this issue and the conclusions are not entirely consistent. Based on the recognition of why it is difficult to address the issue of causal relationship, we proposed:(1) to carefully differentiate the sub-types of dyslexia; (2) to guide the studies by a mature neurocognitive model for reading; (3) cross-validation of the conclusions with different paradigms; (4) comprehensively consideration of the dynamic features of brain development and the interaction of the gene, environment and personal experience.

Key words: development dyslexia, neural mechanism, pre-reading paradigm, age/reading level matched paradigm, longitudinal paradigm

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  • B844

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