Jove
Visualize
Contact Us
JoVE
x logofacebook logolinkedin logoyoutube logo
ABOUT JoVE
OverviewLeadershipBlogJoVE Help Center
AUTHORS
Publishing ProcessEditorial BoardScope & PoliciesPeer ReviewFAQSubmit
LIBRARIANS
TestimonialsSubscriptionsAccessResourcesLibrary Advisory BoardFAQ
RESEARCH
JoVE JournalMethods CollectionsJoVE Encyclopedia of ExperimentsArchive
EDUCATION
JoVE CoreJoVE BusinessJoVE Science EducationJoVE Lab ManualFaculty Resource CenterFaculty Site
Terms & Conditions of Use
Privacy Policy
Policies

Related Concept Videos

Elements: Chemical Symbols and Isotopes02:31

Elements: Chemical Symbols and Isotopes

126.6K
A chemical symbol is an abbreviation used to indicate an element or an atom of an element. For example, the symbol for mercury is Hg. The same symbol is used to indicate one atom of mercury (microscopic domain) or to label a container of many atoms of the element mercury (macroscopic domain).
Some symbols are derived from the common English name of the element; others are abbreviations of the name in another language — Latin, Greek or German. For example, the symbol for aluminum (common name)...
126.6K
DNA as a Genetic Template02:05

DNA as a Genetic Template

27.9K
Two structural features of the DNA molecule provide a basis for the mechanisms of heredity: the four nucleotide bases and its double-stranded nature. The Watson-Crick model of double-helical DNA structure, proposed in 1952, drew heavily upon the X-ray crystallography work of researchers Rosalind Franklin and Maurice Wilkins. Watson, Crick, and Wilkins jointly received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for their work in 1962. Franklin was, controversially, excluded from the prize for...
27.9K
The Periodic Table03:25

The Periodic Table

117.3K
As early chemists discovered more elements, they realized that various elements could be grouped by their similar chemical behaviors. One such grouping includes lithium (Li), sodium (Na), and potassium (K). All of these elements are shiny, conduct heat and electricity well, and have similar chemical properties. A second grouping includes calcium (Ca), strontium (Sr), and barium (Ba), which also are shiny, good conductors of heat and electricity, and have chemical properties in common. However,...
117.3K
Genetic Lingo01:11

Genetic Lingo

115.0K
Overview
115.0K
Karyotyping01:17

Karyotyping

68.6K
Overview
68.6K
The Wave Nature of Light02:12

The Wave Nature of Light

61.5K
The nature of light has been a subject of inquiry since antiquity. In the seventeenth century, Isaac Newton performed experiments with lenses and prisms and was able to demonstrate that white light consists of the individual colors of the rainbow combined together. Newton explained his optics findings in terms of a "corpuscular" view of light, in which light was composed of streams of extremely tiny particles traveling at high speeds according to Newton's laws of motion.
61.5K

You might also read

Related Articles

Articles linked to this work by shared authors, journal, and citation graph.

Sort by
Same author

Redefining the norms: an interdisciplinary perspective on language testing in multilinguals with acquired and progressive neurogenic disorders.

Alzheimer's & dementia (Amsterdam, Netherlands)·2026
Same author

Letter Position Dyslexia in Fingerspelling: Similar Error Patterns in Reading Written and Fingerspelled Words.

Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland)·2026
Same author

The Comodification of Brain Activity, Functional Connectivity, and Behavior Following Learning.

The Journal of neuroscience : the official journal of the Society for Neuroscience·2026
Same author

What affects phonological working memory in deaf native signers.

Journal of experimental psychology. Learning, memory, and cognition·2026
Same author

Lexical retrieval beyond the single word: Modelling the production of alternating verbs.

Cognitive neuropsychology·2025
Same author

Identifying proximity to white matter language tracts with gradient-based intraoperative electrical mapping.

Journal of neurosurgery·2025

Related Experiment Video

Updated: Feb 9, 2026

Assessing Dyslexia at Six Year of Age
15:00

Assessing Dyslexia at Six Year of Age

Published on: May 1, 2020

8.8K

Vowel letter dyslexia.

Lilach Khentov-Kraus1, Naama Friedmann1

  • 1a Language and Brain Lab , Tel Aviv University , Tel Aviv , Israel.

Cognitive Neuropsychology
|June 12, 2018
PubMed
Summary
This summary is machine-generated.

This study identifies vowel letter dyslexia, a reading difficulty affecting vowel recognition. Evidence suggests a specific deficit in the sublexical reading route impacting vowel processing.

Keywords:
HebrewVowel dyslexiareading modelsublexical routevowels

More Related Videos

Author Spotlight: Validation of SICOLE-R for Assessing Cognitive and Reading Skills in Spanish-Speaking Children and Its Role in Personalized Education
09:00

Author Spotlight: Validation of SICOLE-R for Assessing Cognitive and Reading Skills in Spanish-Speaking Children and Its Role in Personalized Education

Published on: August 16, 2024

1.2K
Training Synesthetic Letter-color Associations by Reading in Color
10:27

Training Synesthetic Letter-color Associations by Reading in Color

Published on: February 20, 2014

23.4K

Related Experiment Videos

Last Updated: Feb 9, 2026

Assessing Dyslexia at Six Year of Age
15:00

Assessing Dyslexia at Six Year of Age

Published on: May 1, 2020

8.8K
Author Spotlight: Validation of SICOLE-R for Assessing Cognitive and Reading Skills in Spanish-Speaking Children and Its Role in Personalized Education
09:00

Author Spotlight: Validation of SICOLE-R for Assessing Cognitive and Reading Skills in Spanish-Speaking Children and Its Role in Personalized Education

Published on: August 16, 2024

1.2K
Training Synesthetic Letter-color Associations by Reading in Color
10:27

Training Synesthetic Letter-color Associations by Reading in Color

Published on: February 20, 2014

23.4K

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Neuropsychology
  • Linguistics
  • Reading Science

Background:

  • Dyslexia research has identified various subtypes impacting reading abilities.
  • Vowel processing is crucial for reading fluency and comprehension.
  • The specific role of vowels in the sublexical reading route remains an area of investigation.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To describe a newly identified type of dyslexia, termed vowel letter dyslexia.
  • To investigate the characteristics and underlying mechanisms of vowel letter dyslexia.
  • To provide evidence for the separate processing of vowels and consonants in the sublexical reading route.

Main Methods:

  • A multiple case study involving 23 Hebrew readers with vowel letter dyslexia (developmental and acquired).
  • Administration of 24 tests assessing various cognitive and linguistic components.
  • Analysis of reading errors in a large corpus of 33,483 words.

Main Results:

  • Participants exhibited specific errors with vowel letters (migrations, omissions, additions) during reading.
  • Vowel-related reading errors were significantly more frequent than consonant errors.
  • Vowel production in speech was unaffected, ruling out phonological-output deficits.
  • Deficits in orthographic-visual analysis, phonological-output, visual, morphological, and auditory processing were excluded.

Conclusions:

  • Vowel letter dyslexia is characterized by a selective deficit within the vowel-letter tier of the sublexical reading route.
  • Vowel errors predominantly occurred during sublexical reading, supporting this conclusion.
  • The findings offer cognitive neuropsychological evidence for distinct processing of vowels and consonants in the sublexical reading pathway.