Developmental dyslexia: The visual attention span deficit hypothesis

Cognition

Volumn 104, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 198-230

  Bosse, Marie Line ^a   Tainturier, Marie Josèphe ^b   Valdois, Sylviane ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE MENDÈS FRANCE   (France)

^b BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Children; Developmental dyslexia; Dyslexic subtypes; French; Phoneme awareness; Reading acquisition; Visual attention span

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CHILD; COGNITIVE DEFECT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; FRANCE; HUMAN; HYPOTHESIS; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; LINGUISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SPEECH; UNITED KINGDOM; VERBAL COMMUNICATION; VISION; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL THEORY; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 34249029598     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2006.05.009     Document Type: Article

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