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Developmental Neuropsychology

The main focus of our research concerns the functional architecture and the neural bases of language and language-related functions.

In particular, our studies are concerned with the developmental relationship between language and orthography in both normal and pathological subjects.

The experimental approach involves single case studies as well as highly selected clinical samples, besides cross-sectional and longitudinal studies of normal children.

-::- Giuseppe Cossu

-::- Sonia Boria

• Domain specificity of reading in severely mentally retarded hyperlexic children with outstanding orthographic skills.

• Structural relationship between phonological impairment and orthographic processing.

• Focal brain damage and language/orthography acquisition.

• Longitudinal mapping of early stages of orthographic processing in normal children.

• Neuropsychological Assessment of Preschool Children

• Prof. John C. Marshall: University of Oxford