Dyslexic children are confronted with unstable binocular fixation while reading

PLoS ONE

Volumn 6, Issue 4, 2011, Pages

  Jainta, Stephanie ^a   Kapoula, Zoï ^a  

^a ASSISTANCE PUBLIQUE HÔPITAUX DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BINOCULAR CONVERGENCE; BINOCULAR VISION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; EYE FIXATION; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; EYE POSITION; EYE TRACKING; FEMALE; FIXATION FAILURE; HUMAN; MALE; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SCHOOL CHILD; VISUAL FIELD; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; READING;

CHILD; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; READING; SACCADES; VISION, BINOCULAR;

EID: 79953734307     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0018694     Document Type: Article

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