Research Seminar - The MARCS Institute

Professor Franck Ramus, Visiting Professor from Laboratoire de Sciences Cognitives et Psycholinguistique, Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris will be presenting "Cortical oscillations and brain structure in developmental dyslexia".

Abstract: This talk will review my team’s recent attempts to understand in what respect the brains of dyslexic individuals differ from those of control participants. At the functional level, I will present a couple of studies on cortical oscillations throwing a new light on the functioning of the speech system in dyslexic individuals. At the structural level, I will review our recent research on the neuroanatomical differences between dyslexic and control children, covering voxel-based morphometry, analyses of cortical thickness and surface, white matter tractography, morphometry of the planum temporale, and analyses of gyrification patterns. I will further discuss consistencies and inconsistencies between our results and previously published research, and future perspectives.