Sluggish engagement and disengagement of non-spatial attention in dyslexic children

Cortex

Volumn 44, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 1221-1233

  Facoetti, Andrea ^a,b,c   Ruffino, Milena ^c,d   Peru, Andrea ^c,e   Paganoni, Pierluigi ^f   Chelazzi, Leonardo ^c,g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

^d VITA SALUTE SAN RAFFAELE UNIVERSITY   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^f Azienda Ospedaliera di Bergamo   (Italy)

^g National Institute of Neuroscience   (Italy)

Author keywords

Parietal cortex; Reading; Reading disability; Temporal attention deficit; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADOLESCENT; AGE; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MALE; PHONETICS; SCHOOL CHILD; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 50149120123     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2007.10.007     Document Type: Article

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