I will start getting more into reading up on the prior research regarding dyslexia once I'm done writing up an educational paper that's well-past overdue. What little I do know is based on a couple of slightly older books which concentrate on the behavioral side rather than neural side. The research is based on a strong hunch of my post-doc advisor who's done a lot of studying in this area.

The second part of my research will be to integrate our findings in a neural network with known brain areas. I think at that point I'll be able to get more involved with the magnocellular ideas because we will more than likely have to see if they too can be integrated with the model. It's a fine line, though, to make sure that we don't confound the model. At the moment I can't say either way, but since I'm a neuroscience-based person, I wouldn't discount the possibility that the problems are mostly cellular based. As for why, that remains to be seen.

The summer research problem, although we will be using neural substrates, is mostly behavior-based in an effort to label what the brain is actually doing and create better testing and teaching methods. If it leads to further research on the neural level then I will be happy.