The visual attention span deficit in dyslexia is visual and not verbal

Cortex

Volumn 48, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 768-773

  Lobier, Muriel ^a   Zoubrinetzky, Rachel ^a,b   Valdois, Sylviane ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE MENDÈS FRANCE   (France)

^b GRENOBLE UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

Developmental dyslexia; Reading; VA span; Visual attention

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; HUMAN; PREDICTION; READING; SENSORIMOTOR FUNCTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; VERBALIZATION; VISUAL ATTENTION SPAN DEFICIT;

EID: 84860367670     PISSN: 00109452     EISSN: 19738102     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cortex.2011.09.003     Document Type: Article

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