This volume on neuropsychological and neurolinguistic perspectives of dyslexia and alexia addresses the following issues: neuropsychological substrates; case studies; and computational and linguistic approaches.

The area of cognitive processing of Chinese and Japanese attracts a great deal of attention by leading cognitive psychologists. The interactive-activation model provides the phonologic-orthographic links in processing both language systems. This volume helps readers understand this topic.

This volume contains 20 chapters, grouped by languages (English, German, Dutch, Nordic and Chinese), on phonologic and orthographic processing in learning to read and spell in a cross-language perspective. The integrating theme is the importance of metalinguistic awareness.