Egocentric Mental Rotation in Hungarian Dyslexic Children

Dyslexia

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 3-11

  Karádi, Kázmér ^a   Kovács, Beatrix ^b   Szepesi, Tímea ^a   Szabó, Imre ^a   Kállai, János ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PÉCS   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Dyslexia; Egocentric space; Mental rotation; Parietal cortex

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL FUNCTION; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PARIETAL LOBE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; QUESTIONNAIRE; REACTION TIME;

CHILD; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MENTAL PROCESSES; MOTION PERCEPTION; PARIETAL LOBE; QUESTIONNAIRES; REACTION TIME;

EID: 0035221747     PISSN: 10769242     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dys.182     Document Type: Article

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