Dyslexia impacts more than just reading

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Dyslexia: News from the web: (article by Forbes)

Dyslexia is typically viewed as a reading impairment but dyslexics generally evidence reduced levels of performance on other tasks as well. For example, dyslexics do not usually hear speech in noisy environments as well as non-dyslexics. Findings like this suggest that impairments in sensory perception in general, as opposed to the sensory processes that are directly involved in reading, may contribute to dyslexia.

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A new way of looking at what causes Dyslexia

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Using MRI scans to monitor the brains of people who present with the condition, and those who don’t, researchers found a “really pronounced” difference in responses to a series of visual and audio cues.

The brains of people without dyslexia were more able to recognise repeated words or images in a process known as “neural adaptation”, while a “neural signature” was identified among dyslexics, whose brains displayed lower levels of “plasticity” – or response ability.

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