Different behavioral and eye movement patterns of dyslexic readers with and without attentional deficits during single word reading

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 47, Issue 12, 2009, Pages 2436-2445

  Thaler, Verena ^a   Urton, Karolina ^a   Heine, Angela ^a   Hawelka, Stefan ^b   Engl, Verena ^a   Jacobs, Arthur M ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Attentional problems; Comorbidity; Consonant cluster; Dyslexia; Eye movements; Regular orthography; Word length

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; BEHAVIOR; CHILD; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; READING; STIMULUS; TIME;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER WITH HYPERACTIVITY; CHILD; DYSLEXIA; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; READING; TIME FACTORS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 67650094619     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.04.006     Document Type: Article

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