Magnocellular mediated visual-spatial attention and reading ability

NeuroReport

Volumn 15, Issue 14, 2004, Pages 2215-2218

  Kinsey, Kristofer ^a   Rose, Marina ^b   Hansen, Peter ^a   Richardson, Alex ^a   Stein, John ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^b ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Attention; Coherent motion; Magnocellular; Priming; Reading

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; GIANT CELL; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INTELLIGENCE; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; MALE; MOTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESSING; READING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SCHOOL CHILD; SPATIAL DISCRIMINATION; SPEECH ARTICULATION; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CHILD; CUES; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SPACE PERCEPTION; VISUAL CORTEX;

EID: 6344269985     PISSN: 09594965     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00001756-200410050-00014     Document Type: Article

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