RAMUS Franck
Project status: closed
Dyslexia is a specific form of reading learning disability. Children with dyslexia have difficulty processing and manipulating the sounds involved in speech. The cause of this disorder remains unknown and controversial. It could be a disturbance in the brain activity involved in speech processing in response to specific sound variations, but the data is contradictory.
This project has two overall objectives: 1) understanding the role of brain activity in the processing of speech and different frequencies of sound; and 2) understanding how this activity differs in people with dyslexia, as well as the impact on their ability to learn to read.
Dr. Ramus will analyze brain activity in people with and without dyslexia, and their response to speech and sounds of different amplitudes and frequencies by magnetoencephalography, a technique used for measuring the magnetic fields generated by electrical activity in the brain.
This project has the potential to improve our understanding of the role of the brain in speech perception, while helping explain the neurological basis of dyslexia.
Doctor Franck Ramus
Investigator
Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, France
Related scientific publication(s):
- Mikel Lizarazu, Lou Scotto di Covella, Virginie van Wassenhove, Denis Rivière, Raphael Mizzi, Katia Lehongre, Lucie Hertz-Pannier, Franck Ramus. Neural entrainment to speech and nonspeech in dyslexia: Conceptual replication and extension of previous investigations. Cortex. 2021 Apr;137:160-178. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2020.12.024. Epub 2021 Feb 3.