Visual deficits in developmental dyslexia: Relationships between non-linguistic visual tasks and their contribution to components of reading

Dyslexia

Volumn 14, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 95-115

  Jones, Manon W ^a   Branigan, Holly P ^a   Kelly, M Louise ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dorsal stream; Dyslexia; Letter position encoding; Magnocellular

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUTOMATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MALE; READING; SYMBOLISM; TASK PERFORMANCE; VARIANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION; VISUAL IMPAIRMENT; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PROBLEM SOLVING; REACTION TIME; READING; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 44349150417     PISSN: 10769242     EISSN: 10990909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dys.345     Document Type: Article

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