Dyslexia Impairs Speech Recognition but Can Spare Phonological Competence

PLoS ONE

Volumn 7, Issue 9, 2012, Pages

  Berent, Iris ^a   Vaknin Nusbaum, Vered ^b   Balaban, Evan ^c   Galaburda, Albert M ^d  

^a NORTHEASTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAIFA   (Israel)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d BETH ISRAEL DEACONESS MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; GRAMMAR; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PHONETICS; RESPONSE TIME; SPEECH AUDIOMETRY; SPEECH DISCRIMINATION; STIMULUS RESPONSE; WORD RECOGNITION;

ADULT; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LINGUISTICS; MALE; PHONETICS; SPEECH; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84866542257     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044875     Document Type: Article

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