Speed of processing of the visual-orthographic and auditory-phonological systems in adult dyslexics: The contribution of "asynchrony" to word recognition deficits

Brain and Language

Volumn 85, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 486-502

  Breznitz, Zvia ^a   Misra, Maya ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^b TUFTS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Adult dyslexia; Asynchrony; Auditory; Electrophysiology; ERPs; Orthography; Phonology; Reading; Speed of processing; Timing; Visual

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY SYSTEM; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DYSLEXIA; ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LATENT PERIOD; LINGUISTICS; PHONEME; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; VISUAL SYSTEM; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0037542481     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-934X(03)00071-3     Document Type: Article

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