Letter and letter-string processing in developmental dyslexia

Cortex

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 2010, Pages 1272-1283

  De Luca, Maria ^a   Burani, Cristina ^b   Paizi, Despina ^b,d   Spinelli, Donatella ^a,c   Zoccolotti, Pierluigi ^a,d  

^a IRCCS FONDAZIONE SANTA LUCIA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF COGNITIVE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGIES   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ROME FORO ITALICO   (Italy)

^d SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

Author keywords

Developmental dyslexia; Letter recognition; RAM; Word non word reading

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY RESPONSE; CHILD; CHRONOLOGY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PHONETICS; READING; SCHOOL CHILD; WORD RECOGNITION;

CHILD; COMPREHENSION; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; INDIVIDUALITY; LANGUAGE; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; REACTION TIME; READING;

EID: 77958150710     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 00109452     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.06.007     Document Type: Article

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