Visual target detection is not impaired in dyslexic readers

Vision Research

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 850-852

  Hawelka, Stefan ^a   Wimmer, Heinz ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Developmental dyslexia; String processing; Target detection; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISION; VISUAL ACUITY; VISUAL FIELD DEFECT;

ADULT; ATTENTION; DYSLEXIA; HUMANS; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING;

EID: 39149125756     PISSN: 00426989     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2007.11.003     Document Type: Letter

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