Adults with dyslexia demonstrate space-based and object-based covert attention deficits: Shifting attention to the periphery and shifting attention between objects in the left visual field

Brain and Cognition

Volumn 57, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 30-34

  Buchholz, Judy ^a   Davies, Anne Aimola ^a,b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MACQUARIE UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Covert attention; Dyslexia; Object based; Periphery; Shifting attention; Space based; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DYSLEXIA; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RETINA FOVEA; TASK PERFORMANCE; VALIDATION PROCESS; VISUAL FIELD;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DYSLEXIA; FIXATION, OCULAR; FUNCTIONAL LATERALITY; HUMANS; MATCHED-PAIR ANALYSIS; ORIENTATION; REFERENCE VALUES; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 11144278238     PISSN: 02782626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandc.2004.08.017     Document Type: Article

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