Visual, auditory and cross-modal processing of linguistic and nonlinguistic temporal patterns among adult dyslexic readers

Dyslexia

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 93-115

  Meyler, Ann ^a   Breznitz, Zvia ^b  

^a CARNEGIE MELLON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

Author keywords

Modality; Patterns; Reading disability; Rhythm; Sequential; Timing

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPREHENSION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LINGUISTICS; MALE; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS OF COVARIANCE; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; REVIEW; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; TIME PERCEPTION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; COMPREHENSION; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; READING; REFERENCE VALUES; TIME PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 18844448457     PISSN: 10769242     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dys.294     Document Type: Review

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