Magnocellular visual function and children's single word reading

Vision Research

Volumn 38, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 471-482

  Cornelissen, P L ^a   Hansen, P C ^b   Hutton, J L ^a   Evangelinou, V ^a   Stein, J F ^b  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b Physiology Department   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Coherent motion; Dyslexia; Magnocellular; Reading

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; AWARENESS; DYSLEXIA; ERROR; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SCHOOL CHILD; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

CHILD; DYSLEXIA; GENICULATE BODIES; HUMANS; LOGISTIC MODELS; MATHEMATICS; MOTION PERCEPTION; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 0032008310     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(97)00199-5     Document Type: Article

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