Transient deficit hypothesis and dyslexia: Examination of whole-parts relationship, retinal sensitivity, and spatial and temporal frequencies

Vision Research

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 705-715

  Keen, Alan G ^a   Lovegrove, William J ^b  

^a Fac Arts Hlth Sci Ctrl Q   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Dyslexic; Reading; Spatial frequencies; Visual sub system

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DYSLEXIA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; HYPOTHESIS; INFORMATION PROCESSING; NORMAL HUMAN; PHOTOSENSITIVITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA; SCHOOL CHILD; TIME PERCEPTION; VISION;

CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; RETINA; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0033966135     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0042-6989(99)00208-4     Document Type: Article

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