Impaired filtering of behaviourally irrelevant visual information in dyslexia

Brain

Volumn 130, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 771-785

  Roach, Neil W ^a,b   Hogben, John H ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

Attention deficit; Dyslexia; Vision; Visual attention; Visual cortex

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; HUMAN; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC; SHORT TERM MEMORY; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL MEMORY; VISION; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 33947165828     PISSN: 00068950     EISSN: 14602156     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/brain/awl353     Document Type: Article

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