Visual encoding mechanisms and their relationship to text presentation preference

Dyslexia

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 77-94

  Pammer, Kristen ^a   Lavis, Ruth ^a   Cornelissen, Piers ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dyslexia; Frequency doubling; Letter position; Reading

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION FUNCTION; DYSLEXIA; EXPERIMENTATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; HUMAN; READING; RETINA; SCHOOL CHILD; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL ILLUSION; VISUAL ORIENTATION; CHILD; COGNITION; DECISION MAKING; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHYSIOLOGY; VISION;

CHILD; CHOICE BEHAVIOR; COGNITION; DYSLEXIA; HUMANS; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 3042701582     PISSN: 10769242     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dys.264     Document Type: Article

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