Brain Bee Chapter 9 - Jacey

Question 1

how many phonemes are there in English?

Answer 1

44

Question 2

phonemes can be represented by an ____ _______ number of visual symbols.

Answer 2

even smaller

Question 3

__ in __ of people have dyslexia

Answer 3

1-in-10

Question 4

dyslexics may have problems reading, but they’ve proven to shine in other places such as:

Answer 4

sports, sciences, computing, commerce, the arts

Question 5

reading depends on being able to recognize alphabetic visual symbols in the right order - the ___________ of whatever language a child is learning,

Answer 5

orthography

Question 6

hearing the separate sounds in words in their right order - this involves extracting the ________ _________

Answer 6

phonemic structure

Question 7

most dyslexics are slow and inaccurate at…

Answer 7

analyzing orthographic and phonological word features

Question 8

The ability to sequence letters and sounds accurately depends on what mechanisms?

Answer 8

visual and auditory

Question 9

for unfamiliar words, each letter needs to be:

Answer 9

identified and put in the right order.

Question 10

visual control of eye movement is dominated by a big neuron network know as the _____________ ______

Answer 10

magnocellular

Question 11

true or false: the magnocellular system can be traced right from
the retina, through the pathway to the cerebral cortex and cerebellum, to the motor neurons of the eye-muscles

Answer 11

true

Question 12

an important feature of the magnocellular system is that it generates….

Answer 12

motion signals

Question 13

define “motion error signal”

Answer 13

idk

Question 14

Neuroscientists have found that the visual magnocellular

system is _____ impaired in many dyslexics

Answer 14

mildly

Question 15

name a problem many dyslexics have:

Answer 15

putting the sounds of words in the right order

Question 16

letter sounds are called:

Answer 16

phonemes