--- 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. \n\n" altloc: - http://www.ehess.fr/centres/lscp/persons/ramus/nature01.pdf chapter: ~ commentary: ~ commref: ~ confdates: ~ conference: ~ confloc: ~ contact_email: ~ creators_id: [] creators_name: - family: Ramus given: Franck honourific: '' lineage: '' date: 2001-07 date_type: published datestamp: 2001-08-24 department: ~ dir: disk0/00/00/17/64 edit_lock_since: ~ edit_lock_until: ~ edit_lock_user: ~ editors_id: [] editors_name: [] eprint_status: archive eprintid: 1764 fileinfo: /style/images/fileicons/text_html.png;/1764/1/nature01.html full_text_status: public importid: ~ institution: ~ isbn: ~ ispublished: pub issn: ~ item_issues_comment: [] item_issues_count: 0 item_issues_description: [] item_issues_id: [] item_issues_reported_by: [] item_issues_resolved_by: [] item_issues_status: [] item_issues_timestamp: [] item_issues_type: [] keywords: 'developmental dyslexia, vision, audition, magnocellular, phonology' lastmod: 2011-03-11 08:54:46 latitude: ~ longitude: ~ metadata_visibility: show note: ~ number: 6845 pagerange: 393-395 pubdom: FALSE publication: Nature publisher: MacMillan refereed: TRUE referencetext: |+ 1. Pringle-Morgan, W. British Medical Journal 2, 1378 (1896). 2. Snowling, M. J. Dyslexia (Blackwell, Oxford, 2000). 3. Tallal, P., Miller, S. & Fitch, R. H. Ann. NY Acad. Sci. 682, 27–47 (1993). 4. Stein, J. & Walsh, V. Trends Neurosci. 20, 147–152 (1997). 5. Galaburda, A. & Livingstone, M. Ann. NY Acad. Sci. 682, 70–82 (1993). 6. Heath, S. M., Hogben, J. H. & Clark, C. D. J. Child Psychol. Psychiatry 40, 637–647 (1999). 7. Hill, N. I., Bailey, P. J., Griffiths, Y. M. & Snowling, M. J. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 106, L53–L58 (1999). 8. Skottun, B. C. Vision Res. 40, 111–127 (2000). 9. Mody, M., Studdert-Kennedy, M. & Brady, S. J. Exp. Child Psychol. 64, 199–231 (1997). 10. Rosen, S. & Manganari, E. J. Speech Lang. Hear. Res. (in the press). 11. Witton, C. et al. Curr. Biol. 8, 791–797 (1998). 12. Bishop, D.V. et al. J. Speech Lang. Hear. Res. 42, 155–168 (1999). relation_type: [] relation_uri: [] reportno: ~ rev_number: 8 series: ~ source: ~ status_changed: 2007-09-12 16:40:06 subjects: - cog-psy - dev-psy - neuro-ling succeeds: ~ suggestions: ~ sword_depositor: ~ sword_slug: ~ thesistype: ~ title: 'Dyslexia - Talk of two theories' type: journalp userid: 431 volume: 412