Dyslexia and the failure to form a perceptual anchor

Nature Neuroscience

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 1558-1564

  Ahissar, Merav ^a   Lubin, Yedida ^a   Putter Katz, Hanna ^a,c   Banai, Karen ^a,b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADAPTATION; ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; NOISE; PERCEPTION DISORDER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSYCHOPHYSICS; READING; SPEECH PERCEPTION; STIMULATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE;

EID: 33845254816     PISSN: 10976256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nn1800     Document Type: Article

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