Dyslexia

If you have a stroke in this area of the brain, you become pure alexic. People can still speak and understand language through the spoken modality but they cannot recognize the written word. Spoken language recognition is intact. So we find dyslexia children that have impairments in that circuit. However, we also think that dyslexia is a bit more complex, developmental dyslexia in children because it has multiple possible causes. And so we have to distinguish kids that have visual deficits, children that have phonological deficits at the level of the spoken sounds of language or probably other levels of the deficits like attention and so on.