Part 1 Introductory chapters: neuroanatomical findings in developmental dyslexia, G.F.Sherman, G.D.Rosen and A.M.Galaburda; transitory neuronal connections in normal development and disease, D.O.Frost; some remarks on the origin of the phonetic code, B.Lindblom. Part 2 Hemispheric specializations and interactions: some brain mechanisms for reading, G.A.Ojeman; reading and lateralized brain lesions in children, D.M.Aram, B.L.Ekelman and L.L.Gillespie; hemispheric independence and interaction in word recognition, E.Zaidel; relative interactive hemispheric dominance in reading, T.Landis and M.Regard; spatial constraints on the distribution of selective attention in the visual field, G.Berlucchi et al; dynamics of information processing of the somato-sensory cortex, B.Whitsel; disordered right hemisphere function in developmental dyslexia, J.Stein; motor control in man - complex movements using one or both hands, J.C.Rothwell. Part 3 Phonetics and phonology: the speech code, G.Fant; neuropsychological and neuroanatomical studies of developmental language/reading disorders - recent advances, P.Tallal and W.Katz; reading is hard just because listening is easy, A.M.Liberman; phonology and beginning reading revisited, I.Y.Liberman; lack of phonological awareness - a critical factor in dyslexia, I.Lundberg; deficits in disabled readers' phological and orthographic coding - etiology and remediation, R.Olson et al. Part 4 Memory functions and language: the role of phonological memory in normal and disordered language development, S.E.Gathercole and A.D.Baddeley; orthographic structures, the graphemic buffer and the spelling process, A.Caramazza and G.Miceli; grammatical capacity and developmental dyslexia - issues for research, M-L.Kean; morphological awareness in dyslexia, C.Elbro; information-processing obstacles in reading acquisition, T.Hoien, O.F.Leegaard and J.P.Larsen. Part 5 Visual analysis and saccadic strategies in reading: comments on eye movements, R.Granit; hemispheric interactions in saccadic responses to bihemifield stimuli, Y.Y.Zeevi; sequential vision and reading, G.Nyman; dyslexia and reading as examples of alternative visual strategies, G.Geiger and J.Y.Lettvin; reading with and without eye movements, L.W.Stark and C.C.Krischer; eye movements and the perceptual span in beginning and dyslexic readers, K.Rayner; some characteristics of readers' eye movements, G.W.McConkie and D.Zola.