Auditory and visual stream segregation in children and adults: An assessment of the amodality assumption of the 'sluggish attentional shifting' theory of dyslexia

Brain Research

Volumn 1302, Issue , 2009, Pages 132-147

  Lallier, Marie ^a,b   Thierry, Guillaume ^e   Tainturier, Marie Josèphe ^e   Donnadieu, Sophie ^a,c   Peyrin, Carole ^a,d   Billard, Catherine ^f   Valdois, Sylviane ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE MENDÈS FRANCE   (France)

^b UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

^d CNRS   (France)

^e BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^f BICÊTRE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

Audition; Dyslexia; Reading; Sluggish attentional shifting; Stream segregation; Vision

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY MEMORY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SHORT TERM MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY;

EID: 71949116171     PISSN: 00068993     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.07.037     Document Type: Article

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