The visual magnocellular pathway in Chinese-speaking children with developmental dyslexia

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 48, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 3627-3633

  Wang, Jiu Ju ^a,b   Bi, Hong Yan ^a   Gao, Li Qun ^c   Wydell, Taeko N ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF PSYCHOLOGY   (China)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^c Cultural University   (China)

^d BRUNEL UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chinese orthography; Developmental dyslexia; Event related potentials (ERPs); Mismatch negativity (MMN); Visual psychophysical experiment

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BRAIN ELECTROPHYSIOLOGY; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHINESE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; EVENT RELATED POTENTIAL; EVOKED AUDITORY RESPONSE; EVOKED VISUAL RESPONSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MALE; MENTAL PERFORMANCE; MISMATCH NEGATIVITY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; SCHOOL CHILD; VISUAL SYSTEM;

ASIAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; BRAIN MAPPING; CHILD; CONTINGENT NEGATIVE VARIATION; DYSLEXIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAPHY; EVOKED POTENTIALS, VISUAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; PHOTIC STIMULATION; REACTION TIME; READING; VISUAL PATHWAYS;

EID: 77957305325     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2010.08.015     Document Type: Article

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