Abstract:
Developmental dyslexia is generally believed to result from impaired linguistic processing rather than from deficits in low-level sensory function. Recently, a bulk of studies was devoted to the so-called magnocellural theory of dyslexia which assumes that dyslexia is due to an impairment of magnocellural stream of the visual (and/or auditory) processing. In this paper we present a review of the anatomical, psychophysical and electrophysiological evidences supporting this theory.
