Submitted by Cathy Davidson on Apr 09, 2008, 10:12 AM
A recent study of dyslexia, and how it affects different parts of the brains of children reading in English or Chinese, is gaining a lot of attention and being posed as another example of the "neurbiological clues" of dyslexia. But studies of differential dyslexic rates and definitions have gone on for decades. The issue isn't just neurobiological but the intertwined relationship of neurobiology, culture, history, and linguistics. Once again, brain-determinism shortchanges the complexity of the research findings.