Word superiority, pseudoword superiority, and learning to read: A comparison of dyslexic and normal readers

Brain and Language

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 432-440

  Grainger, Jonathan ^a   Bouttevin, Sébastien ^a   Truc, Cathy ^a   Bastien, Mireille ^a   Ziegler, Johannes ^a  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LANGUAGE; READING; SCHOOL CHILD; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 0344442379     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0093-934X(03)00145-7     Document Type: Article

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