Reading comprehension: Cognition and neuroimaging

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 195-213

  Cutting, Laurie E ^a   Eason, Sarah H ^a   Young, Katherine M ^a   Alberstadt, Audrey L ^a  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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DOI: 10.4324/9780203838006     Document Type: Chapter

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