Nicolson, Roderick I.
Dyslexia, Learning, and the Brain
- ISBN 13:
- 9780262515092
- author:
- Nicolson, Roderick I.
- format:
- Paperback
- publisher:
- MIT Press
- language:
- English
- Publication Year:
- 2010
- Pages:
- 303
- Dimensions:
- 22.6 x 15.4 x 1.6 cm
- Genre:
- Clinical & internal medicine
- Condition:
- New
- Availability:
- Item usually sent within 5 working days
Description
Dyslexia, Learning, and the Brain by Roderick Nicolson and Angela Fawcett provides a comprehensive overview of research on dyslexia, exploring its underlying causes at cognitive, brain, and neural system levels. This framework offers significant progress in understanding dyslexia and related learning disabilities. The authors' analysis of dyslexia theory differs from most existing research, which focuses on the cause of reading difficulties. Instead, Nicolson and Fawcett examine the deeper question of the underlying causes of learning disabilities that manifest as reading problems. Their work places dyslexia within the broader disciplines of cognitive psychology and cognitive neuroscience. By integrating two established theories - the automatization deficit account and the cerebellar deficit hypothesis - Nicolson and Fawcett demonstrate how these frameworks can be seen as subsuming other existing accounts, such as the phonological deficit account and sensory processing accounts. This book offers a rich understanding of dyslexia and its relationship to neural systems, providing valuable insights for researchers and those interested in learning disabilities.
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