Computational modeling and the neural bases of reading and reading disorders

How Children Learn to Read: Current Issues and New Directions in the Integration of Cognition, Neurobiology and Genetics of Reading and Dyslexia Research and Practice

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 101-133

  Rueckl, Jay G ^a   Seidenberg, Mark S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203838006     Document Type: Chapter

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