Editorial: Spelling Across Orthographies

Cognitive mechanisms underlying reading and spelling development in five European orthographies

This paper addresses the question whether the cognitive underpinnings of reading and spelling are universal or language/orthography-specific. We analyzed concurrent predictions of phonological processing (awareness and memory) and rapid automatized naming (RAN) for literacy development in a Adolescent Psychiatry, Psychosomatics, and Psychotherapy, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich, Waltherst...

Behavioral and Cortical Indices of Typical and Atypical Development of Reading and Spelling Skills in Children: Evidence from Different Orthographies

In a cross-sectional study, we investigated the development of fluent reading and spelling in the first three years of learning Arabic. The goals of our study were to: 1) validate suitable measures for fluent reading and spelling in the first three years of learning Arabic; 2) trace the developmental course of the relationship between fluent reading and spelling in the first three years of lear...

Editorial: Face Perception across the Life-Span

Faces convey information that is of great importance for humans as social beings. The ability to process information from faces undergoes significant changes across the life-span (e.g., Germine et al., 2011), and shows considerable individual differences (e.g., Wilhelm et al., 2010). Average developmental trends and changes of individual differences in face perception across the life-span arise...

Editorial: Could Speciation Across Evolution be Governed by Genetic Switch Codes at Short Tandem Repeats?

Foundation literacy acquisition in European orthographies.

Several previous studies have suggested that basic decoding skills may develop less effectively in English than in some other European orthographies. The origins of this effect in the early (foundation) phase of reading acquisition are investigated through assessments of letter knowledge, familiar word reading, and simple nonword reading in English and 12 other orthographies. The results confir...