A case study of developmental phonological dyslexia: Is the attentional deficit in the perception of rapid stimuli sequences amodal?

Cortex

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 231-241

  Lallier, Marie ^a,d   Donnadieu, Sophie ^a,c   Berger, Carole ^a,c   Valdois, Sylviane ^a,b,d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE MENDÈS FRANCE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

^d UNIV GRENOBLE ALPES   (France)

Author keywords

Auditory attention; Dyslexia; Sluggish attentional shifting; Temporal processing; Visual attention span

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION DISTURBANCE; ATTENTIONAL BLINK; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHONEME; PHONETICS; PREDICTION; READING; SPELLING; STIMULUS RESPONSE; TASK PERFORMANCE; THEORY; TIME; VISUAL DISCRIMINATION;

EID: 74249113919     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.03.014     Document Type: Article

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