Dyslexic participants show intact spontaneous categorization processes

Dyslexia

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 167-186

  Nikolopoulos, Dimitris S ^a   Pothos, Emmanuel M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

^b SWANSEA UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dyslexia; Spontaneous categorization; Supervised categorization

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DATA ANALYSIS; DYSLEXIA; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MEMORY CONSOLIDATION; METHODOLOGY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; NONVERBAL COMMUNICATION; PHONETICS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; READING; SCHOOL CHILD; SPELLING; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION; APTITUDE; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; HOSPITALIZATION; LANGUAGE; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL;

ADOLESCENT; APTITUDE; CHILD; COGNITION; CONCEPT FORMATION; DYSLEXIA; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MATHEMATICS; MEMORY; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PHONETICS; READING; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 70349760484     PISSN: 10769242     EISSN: 10990909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dys.375     Document Type: Article

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