In this study, we investigated the points in common and differences between developmental dyslexia and acquired alexia with agraphia in terms of timing of localization of the functions of reading/writing in the brain, using neuropsychological assessments and functional MRI. The participants were several children with developmental dyslexia who had abnormal activation area in the left temporo-parietal junction and two children with acquired alexia and agraphia who had left brain damage including inferior parietal lobule at the age of eight. The results suggested that reading/writing functions are localized in the left inferior parietal lobule before the age of eight. The findings also suggested that the functions of reading/writing develop independently from manipulation of non-verbal figures before eight years of age.
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Uno, A., Haruhara, N., Kaneko, M., Awaya, N., Katano, S., Kozuka, J., … Sambai, A. (2010). Children with developmental dyslexia and acquired alexia with agraphia especially for disorders involving kanji writing. Japan Journal of Logopedics and Phoniatrics, 51(3), 245–251. https://doi.org/10.5112/jjlp.51.245
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