Fig. 12.

Individual differences in brain activity are strongly correlated with individual differences in reading rate.Solid lines are regression lines through the data. The responses corresponding to contrasts that produced the highest correlations are shown (MT+, ct = 30%, r = 0.80; V1, ct = 85%, r = 0.68; V2, ct = 100%,r = 0.80; V3, ct = 100%, r = 0.77; V3A, ct = 53%, r = 0.60; V4v, ct = 100%, r = 0.80), although the correlations were significant across a wide range of contrasts in all areas (see Results). Reading rates are reported as percentile scores. The dyslexic subject with a high reading rate scored quite poorly on other reading measures, including the reading comprehension score of the Nelson-Denny reading test.