The Magnocellular Theory of Developmental Dyslexia

Dyslexia

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2001, Pages 12-36

  Stein, John ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b Laboratory of Physiology   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cerebellum; Dyslexia; Fatty acids; Genetics; Hearing; Magnocellular system; Orthography; Phonology; Reading; Vision

Indexed keywords

UNSATURATED FATTY ACID;

BINOCULAR VISION; BRAIN; CEREBELLUM; CHILD; CREATIVITY; DYSLEXIA; EYE FIXATION; GENETICS; HUMAN; METABOLISM; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; PARIETAL LOBE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHONETICS; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; REVIEW; VISION; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELD;

BRAIN; CEREBELLUM; CHILD; CREATIVENESS; DYSLEXIA; FATTY ACIDS, UNSATURATED; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MOTION PERCEPTION; PARIETAL LOBE; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; VISION, BINOCULAR; VISUAL CORTEX; VISUAL FIELDS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 0035228646     PISSN: 10769242     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dys.186     Document Type: Article

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