A meta-analysis of functional reading systems in typically developing and struggling readers across different alphabetic languages

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Pollack, C., Luk, G., & Christodoulou, J. A. (2015). A meta-analysis of functional reading systems in typically developing and struggling readers across different alphabetic languages. Frontiers in Psychology, 6, 191. https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.00191 

Summary: This meta-analysis of reading brain activation in typical and atypical readers of English, Dutch, Italian, German, French, and Norwegian showed common and distinct regions of activation, and support the universality of a signature pattern of brain activation in developmental dyslexia across alphabetic languages.

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