Deficits in achromatic phantom contour perception in poor readers

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 44, Issue 10, 2006, Pages 1900-1908

  Sperling, Anne J ^a   Lu, Zhong Lin ^b   Manis, Franklin R ^b   Seidenberg, Mark S ^c  

^a GEORGETOWN UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

Dyslexia; Magnocellular; Parvocellular; Phantom contours; Reading

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DYSLEXIA; HUMAN; PERCEPTION; PHONETICS; READING; SCORING SYSTEM; SPEECH ARTICULATION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISION;

CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COLOR PERCEPTION; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; FORM PERCEPTION; HUMANS; MALE; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; SENSORY THRESHOLDS;

EID: 33745227357     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2006.02.003     Document Type: Article

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