Order or Disorder? Impaired Hebb Learning in Dyslexia

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 37, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1270-1279

  Szmalec, Arnaud ^a   Loncke, Maaike ^a   Page, Mike P A ^b   Duyck, Wouter ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Dyslexia; Hebb sequence learning; Language learning; Reading; Working memory

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CASE CONTROL STUDY; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; MALE; METHODOLOGY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHOTOSTIMULATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; READING; SHORT TERM MEMORY;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ADOLESCENT; ASSOCIATION LEARNING; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; VERBAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 80052862323     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/a0023820     Document Type: Article

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