Do children with developmental dyslexia have impairments in implicitlearning?

Dyslexia

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 143-161

  Pavlidou, Elpis V ^a,b   Kelly, M Louise ^b   Williams, Joanne M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Artificial grammar learning; Children; Developmental dyslexia; Implicit learning; Reading

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CHILD; CHILD DEVELOPMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DYSLEXIA; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; IMPLICIT MEMORY; LEARNING DISORDER; MENTAL TASK; PRIMARY SCHOOL; RECALL; SCHOOL CHILD; SCORING SYSTEM; STRENGTH; TASK PERFORMANCE;

CHILD; COMORBIDITY; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEARNING DISORDERS; MALE; PREVALENCE; SPEECH RECEPTION THRESHOLD TEST;

EID: 77954598140     PISSN: 10769242     EISSN: 10990909     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/dys.400     Document Type: Article

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