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Welcome to the USC Center for the Study of Reading and Dyslexia
We are a research center that is part of the Department of Psychology and Neuroscience Graduate Program at the University of Southern California.
Find out more about who we are and the research we do by exploring the links to the left.
Contact Us:
By phone at (213) 740-2217 or by email at reading.study@gmail.com
Many people think that the defining feature of dyslexia is reversing letters, but research has shown that this is not actually the case. The Association for Psychological Science busts this myth here: http://www.psychologicalscience.org/media/myths/myth_17.cfm
Recent News
May, 2010: The entire lab went to Boston, MA for the annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science, where the following posters were presented:
No Phonological Activation in Chinese Reading: Evidence From Perspective of Phonetically-Informed Phonology - Zhisen Jiang, Puipui Cheung, Frank Manis, Elaine Andersen
Perceptual Anchors Away: Evidence Supporting the Noise Exclusion Hypothesis of Dyslexia - Rachel L. Beattie, Zhong-Lin Lu, Franklin R. Manis
Relationships Among Cortical Thickness, Reading Skill, and Reading Experience in Adult Readers - Jason G. Goldman, Allison Zumberge, Frank R. Manis
The Introductory Psychology 'Mini-Course': A New Strategy for Organizing Discussion Sections - Jason G. Goldman, Rachel L. Beattie, Ori Amir, Ann Renken, Frank R. Manis
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| June, 2009: Jason Goldman presented his poster, titled "Relationships Among Cortical Thickness, Reading Skill, and Print Exposure in Adult Readers" at the 2009 Society for the Scientific Study of Reading conference, in Boston, MA. See the poster here. |
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March, 2009: Allison Zumberge Orechwa presented her poster titled "Both behavioral and neural indices of phonological ability predict reading fluency in adults" at the 2009 Cognitive Neuroscience Society conference, in San Francisco, CA. See the poster here.
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November, 2008: Allison Zumberge Orechwa and Jason Goldman traveled to Washington, DC for the annual Society for Neuroscience conference, and presented a poster titled "The neurobiological profile of adult disabled readers supports the phonological deficit of dyslexia." See our poster here.
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April, 2008: Our poster titled "fMRI Activations Predict Reading Ability in Adults With and Without Developmental Dyslexia" was presented at the 15th Annual Cognitive Neuroscience Society Conference in San Francisco, CA. See our poster here. |
| February, 2008: Our first neuroimaging study of reading was published in the journal Neuroimage, titled Sensitivity to Orthographic Familiarity in the Occipito-temporal Region. See our poster from the 2007 Cognitive Neuroscience Society Conference in New York City here. Find our article via Pubmed here. |
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September, 2006: Frank Manis published “The Virtual Child” (Prentice Hall, 2006), a text-based interactive simulation in which students play the role of a parent raising a child from birth to 18. He road-tested it with his Psychology 336 class over the past four years, incorporating feedback from students. See an article featuring Dr. Manis and The Virtual Child from USC College News. |
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