Rapid processing of letters, digits and symbols: What purely visual-attentional deficit in developmental dyslexia?

Developmental Science

Volumn 13, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Ziegler, Johannes C ^a,b   Pech Georgel, Catherine ^c   Dufau, Stéphane ^a,b   Grainger, Jonathan ^a,b  

^a AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^b AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^c TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD; CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; RANDOMIZED CONTROLLED TRIAL; READING; VISION;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; CHILD; DYSLEXIA; HUMANS; LANGUAGE DISORDERS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; READING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 77955520906     PISSN: 1363755X     EISSN: 14677687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2010.00983.x     Document Type: Article

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