Is the visual analyzer orthographic-specific? Reading words and numbers in letter position dyslexia

Cortex

Volumn 46, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 982-1004

  Friedmann, Naama ^a   Dotan, Dror ^a   Rahamim, Einav ^a  

^a TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Developmental dyslexia; Dyslexia; Hebrew; Letter position dyslexia; Numbers

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; DYSLEXIA; ERROR; FEMALE; HUMAN; LETTER POSITION DYSLEXIA; MALE; READING; SCHOOL CHILD; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD RECOGNITION;

EID: 77954952074     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.08.007     Document Type: Article

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