An attempt to simulate letter-by-letter dyslexia in normal readers

Brain and Language

Volumn 98, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 251-263

  Fiset, Stéphanie ^a,b   Arguin, Martin ^a,b   Fiset, Daniel ^a,b  

^a CENTRE DE RECHERCHE EN NEUROPSYCHOLOGIE ET COGNITION   (Canada)

^b CENTRE DE RECHERCHE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Dyslexia; Letter by letter dyslexia; Pure alexia; Reading; Simulation in normal readers; Visual processing; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LETTER BY LETTER DYSLEXIA; SIMULATION; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL STIMULATION; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PERCEPTUAL MASKING; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 33747888978     PISSN: 0093934X     EISSN: 10902155     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bandl.2006.05.003     Document Type: Article

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