The influence of contrast on coherent motion processing in dyslexia

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 50, Issue 7, 2012, Pages 1672-1681

  Conlon, Elizabeth G ^a   Lilleskaret, Gry ^a   Wright, Craig M ^a   Power, Garry F ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coherent motion; Contrast; Dorsal stream; Dyslexia; Noise exclusion

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CINERADIOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MAGNOCELLULAR NUCLEUS; MOVEMENT PERCEPTION; NORMAL HUMAN; PSYCHOPHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO;

ADULT; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; BIOMECHANICS; CONTRAST SENSITIVITY; CUES; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTION PERCEPTION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; PSYCHOPHYSICS; READING; SENSORY THRESHOLDS; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84861225646     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.03.023     Document Type: Article

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