Predicting early reading skills from pre-reading measures of dorsal stream functioning

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 47, Issue 14, 2009, Pages 3174-3181

  Kevan, Alison ^a   Pammer, Kristen ^a  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coherent motion; Dorsal stream; Dyslexia; Emerging reading; Magnocellular; Predicting reading; Visual frequency doubling

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN FUNCTION; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; GRATING; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; KINDERGARTEN; LEARNING; MALE; MENTAL TEST; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PREDICTION; READING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

AGE FACTORS; CHILD; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; ILLUSIONS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHONETICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PSYCHOPHYSICS; READING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; TIME FACTORS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL PATHWAYS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 70350430759     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2009.07.016     Document Type: Article

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