Impaired neuronal timing in developmental dyslexia - The magnocellular hypothesis

Dyslexia

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 1999, Pages 59-77

  Stein, John ^a   Talcott, Joel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Audition; Dyslexia; Magnocellular; Psychophysics; Reading; Vision

Indexed keywords

EID: 28844435876     PISSN: 10769242     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/(SICI)1099-0909(199906)5:2<59::AID-DYS134>3.0.CO;2-F     Document Type: Article

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