Preorthographical constraints on visual word recognition: Evidence from a case study of developmental surface dyslexia

Cognitive Neuropsychology

Volumn 24, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 623-660

  Dubois, Matthieu ^a   Lafaye De Micheaux, Pierre ^b   Noë, Marie Pascale ^a,c   Valdois, Sylviane ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c FNRS   (Belgium)

^d UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; EYE FIXATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; MALE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHORT TERM MEMORY; VERBAL MEMORY; VISUAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 35148818342     PISSN: 02643294     EISSN: 14640627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/02643290701617330     Document Type: Article

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