November 12, 2007 — Compared with children with typical reading ability, children with developmental dyslexia had suboptimal brain activation in response to fast-changing sounds as in normal speech, ...

image: Syllables contain fast-changing sounds. The maps above show how the syllables /ba/ and /da/ sound in normal speech. The graphs show the pitch over time. In this example, the part of the sound ...

A large-scale study from the University of Michigan and University of Minnesota finds no evidence for a long-believed association between musical training and enhanced neural processing of sounds at ...

Brain imaging adds further support to the idea that at least some children with dyslexia have trouble processing sound, rather than a visual problem. The study also shows that computer-based sound ...