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Altered brain network topology during speech tracking in developmental dyslexia
- 4 April, 2022
- Posted by: Francesco Gentile
- Category: Reading and Dyslexia
No CommentsDevelopmental dyslexia (DD) is a multifaceted learning disorder characterized by a specific impairment in fluent reading, which is often accompanied by altered phonological processing of speech. Despite a growing body of research striving to understand its neurobiological origin in brain functions, this mystery is still under debate. Recently, one of our papers has been
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How does dyslexia develop?
- 18 March, 2022
- Posted by: Francesco Gentile
- Category: Reading and Dyslexia
Learning to read and write fluently seems self-evident to most. But actually it isn’t, especially not for people with dyslexia. In this Dutch lecture How does dyslexia develop? Milene Bonte explains why.
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Giada Guerra defence, Tuesday, March 22 at 13 hrs
- 17 March, 2022
- Posted by: Francesco Gentile
- Category: Uncategorized
On Tuesday, March 22 at 13 hrs, Giada Guerra will defend her dissertation entitled “The contribution of auditory attention to reading processes of school-age children with and without dyslexia”. The defence will take place onsite in the Aula at Minderbroedersberg 4-6. You can also view the defence online here. A copy of the thesis can
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Alex Emmendorfer defense, Tuesday, February 22 at 13 hrs
- 17 February, 2022
- Posted by: Katarzyna Chyl
- Category: Uncategorized
On Tuesday, February 22 at 13 hrs, Alex Emmendorfer will defend her dissertation entitled “Electrophysiological correlates of phonological and temporal regularities in speech processing”. The defense will take place onsite in the Aula at Minderbroedersberg 4-6. You can also view the defense online here. A copy of the thesis can be downloaded via this link. Good
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How learning to read changes the listening brain
- 14 February, 2022
- Posted by: Katarzyna Chyl
- Category: Uncategorized
Check out our new review article summarising how learning to read changes the way our brains respond to speech and text and reorganises the way different brain areas communicate to one another. In this article we give an overview of the brain and behavioural changes that evolve during reading acquisition and provide suggestions for future
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Connecting sounds to words when learning to read
- 14 February, 2022
- Posted by: Katarzyna Chyl
- Category: Uncategorized
We recently published an fMRI paper from the Leeswisnt project exploring changes in brain activation during letter-speech mapping over a three year period in children without dyslexia. Our findings show that reading development is characterized by dynamic changes in auditory as well as visual brain areas, and highlight the specific changes to our understanding and
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Co-Air webinar & IPSY seminar
- 10 February, 2022
- Posted by: Katarzyna Chyl
- Category: Uncategorized
Upcoming event! Prof. Milene Bonte will give a talk on “Letter and speech sound learning in typical and dyslexic readers” at the Current Opinion on Audiovisual Integration and Reading (Co-Air) Webinar (11 February 2021), and at the Institute of Research in Psychology (IPSY) at Université catholique de Louvain in Belgium (29 April 2021). See more at https://coairwebinar.wordpress.com/upcoming-events/
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EMLAR workshop
- 10 February, 2022
- Posted by: Katarzyna Chyl
- Category: Uncategorized
Upcoming event! Prof. Milene Bonte will participate in the Experimental Methods in Language Acquisition Research (EMLAR) workshop organized by the Utrecht University (19-21 April 2022). Title of the presentation is “Using behavioral, EEG and fMRI measures to capture audio-(visual) learning in typical and dyslexic readers”. See more at https://emlar.wp.hum.uu.nl/program/
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New Facebook page
- 10 February, 2022
- Posted by: Katarzyna Chyl
- Category: Uncategorized
We recently launched a new Facebook page of our Laboratory to inform about new publications, initiatives, and scientific projects. Like & share to stay in touch! https://www.facebook.com/BrainLanguageMaastricht
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Developmental Brain Dynamics
- 3 May, 2021
- Posted by: Milene Bonte
- Category: Reading and Dyslexia, Uncategorized
Our meeting report of the NIAS Lorentz workshop Developmental Brain Dynamics just got out in Nature NPJ Science of Learning. In this report we emphasize the importance of multi-level developmental research and scientific collaboration. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41539-021-00088-6