Extra-large letter spacing improves reading in dyslexia

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

Volumn 109, Issue 28, 2012, Pages 11455-11459

  Zorzi, Marco ^a   Barbiero, Chiara ^b   Facoetti, Andrea ^a,c   Lonciari, Isabella ^b   Carrozzi, Marco ^b   Montico, Marcella ^b   Bravar, Laura ^b   George, Florence ^d   Pech Georgel, Catherine ^d   Ziegler, Johannes C ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE FOR MATERNAL AND CHILD HEALTH IRCCS BURLO GAROFOLO   (Italy)

^c SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^d TIMONE HOSPITAL   (France)

^e AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

Orthographic processing; Print; Visual attentional deficits; Word recognition

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ARTICLE; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; LINGUISTICS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; SCHOOL CHILD; WORD RECOGNITION;

ATTENTION; AWARENESS; CHILD; DYSLEXIA; FORM PERCEPTION; FRANCE; HUMANS; ITALY; LANGUAGE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHONETICS; READING; VISION, OCULAR; VISUAL FIELDS;

EID: 84863951768     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1205566109     Document Type: Article

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