A decade of white matter connectivity studies in developmental dyslexia

Author contributions

Jingjing Zhao (Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Project administration, Resources, Software, Supervision, Validation, Visualization, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing), Yueye Zhao (Investigation, Visualization, Writing - original draft, Writing - review & editing), Zujun Song (Investigation, Writing - original draft), Jianyi Liu (Writing - original draft), Michel Thiebaut de Schotten (Formal analysis, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Methodology, Software), and Franck Ramus (Data curation, Funding acquisition, Investigation, Project administration, Resources, Supervision, Writing - review & editing)

Conflict of interest statement

None declared.

Acknowledgments

This study was supported by STI 2030-Major Projects (2021ZD0200500), National Natural Science Foundation of China funded the study (61807023), Humanities and Social Science Fund of Ministry of Education of the People's Republic of China (17XJC190010, 23XJC740010), Shaanxi Province Natural Science Foundation (2018JQ8015, 2023-JC-YB-703), and Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities (GK201702011). The study was also funded by Agence Nationale de la Recherche (ANR-06-NEURO-019-01, ANR-11-BSV4-014-01, ANR-17-EURE-0017 and ANR-10-IDEX-0001-02). M.T.d.S. was supported by the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the European Research Council (ERC) Consolidator grant agreement no. 818521 (DISCONNECTOME) and by the University of Bordeaux's IdEx ‘Investments for the Future’ program RRI ‘IMPACT’ and the IHU ‘Precision & Global Vascular Brain Health Institute—VBHI’ funded by the France 2030 initiative. We thank Qing Yang, Siyu Chen, and Xinyue Zhang for valuable comments and edits for the manuscript.

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