Helping dyslexic children attend to letters within visual word forms

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 109, Issue 28, 2012, Pages 11064-11065

  McCandliss, Bruce D ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COGNITION; DYSLEXIA; LANGUAGE; NOTE; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPATIAL MEMORY; TRAINING; VISUAL ACUITY; WORD RECOGNITION;

DYSLEXIA; HUMANS; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; READING;

EID: 84863887813     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1209921109     Document Type: Note

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