Behavioral neuropsychological assessment and brain activation in an acquired dyslexia: an fMRI study Kichun Nam and Sunbeom Pyun Department of Psychology, Korea University, Seoul, Korea and College of Medicine, University of Ulsan, Ulsan, Korea

In my presentation, I will introduce the concept of dyslexia and specific reading difficulties of different types of dyslexics. And then two studies about Korean dyslexic will be presented. In study 1, psycholinguistic tests were used to specify the reading difficulties of a dyslexic, and the dyslexia type was defined as the deep dyslexia, based on the results of the psycholinguistic tests. In study 2, fMRI technique was used to examine the activation pattern of the dyslexic during doing psycholinguistic test. We found that the deep dyslexic read prints by using the right frontal lobe rather the left parietal and inferior temporal lobes.