Word length and word frequency affect eye movements in dyslexic children reading in a regular (German) orthography

Annals of Dyslexia

Volumn 60, Issue 1, 2010, Pages 86-101

  Dürrwächter, Ute ^a   Sokolov, Alexander N ^b   Reinhard, Jens ^b   Klosinski, Gunther ^a   Trauzettel Klosinski, Susanne ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Developmental dyslexia; Eye movements; Regular orthography; Scanning laser ophthalmoscope; Word frequency; Word length

Indexed keywords

DIAGNOSTIC AGENT;

ARTICLE; CHILD; DYSLEXIA; EYE MOVEMENT; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMAN; LASER; MALE; OCULOGRAPHY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; READING; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SPEECH DISORDER; VISION; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

ARTICULATION DISORDERS; CHILD; DYSLEXIA; EYE MOVEMENT MEASUREMENTS; EYE MOVEMENTS; FEMALE; GERMANY; HUMANS; LASERS; MALE; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; READING; SACCADES; VISUAL PERCEPTION; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 77953962828     PISSN: 07369387     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11881-010-0034-9     Document Type: Article

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