History of reading struggles linked to enhanced learning in low spatial frequency scenes

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2012, Pages

  Schneps, Matthew H ^a   Brockmole, James R ^b   Sonnert, Gerhard ^a   Pomplun, Marc ^c  

^a HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; COLLEGE STUDENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DYSLEXIA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; LATENT PERIOD; READING; RESPONSE TIME; SPATIAL FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; SPATIAL MEMORY; TASK PERFORMANCE; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; ASSOCIATION; LEARNING; MEMORY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHYSIOLOGY; STUDENT;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; CUES; DYSLEXIA; HUMANS; LEARNING; MEMORY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; READING; SPACE PERCEPTION; STUDENTS; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84860494455     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0035724     Document Type: Article

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