Sound can improve visual search in developmental dyslexia

Experimental Brain Research

Volumn 216, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 243-248

  De Boer Schellekens, Liselotte ^a   Vroomen, Jean ^a  

^a TILBURG UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Dyslexia; Orienting of attention; Visual attention; Visual search task

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; EYE FIXATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SOUND; VISUAL ORIENTATION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; ATTENTION; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; FIXATION, OCULAR; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHOMOTOR PERFORMANCE; READING; VISUAL PERCEPTION; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84856257271     PISSN: 00144819     EISSN: 14321106     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00221-011-2926-2     Document Type: Article

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