Download or read book The Neural Basis of Reading written by Piers Cornelissen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-28 with total page 362 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading is a unique human ability that has become very pivotal for functioning in our world today. As modern societies rely extensively on literacy skills, and as reading disabilities have profound personal, economic and social consequences, it is surprising that we have a very underdeveloped scientific understanding of the neural basis of reading and visual word recognition in the normal brain. This book fills this gap in the literature by addressing some of the fundamental questions in reading research.