Probing the neurocognitive trajectories of children's reading skills

Neuropsychologia

Volumn 51, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 472-481

  Talcott, Joel B ^a   Witton, Caroline ^a   Stein, John F ^b  

^a ASTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Cognitive; Development; Dyslexia; Literacy skills; Orthography; Phonological awareness; Reading; Sensory

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHILD; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; FEMALE; FREQUENCY DISCRIMINATION; HUMAN; LANGUAGE DEVELOPMENT; LANGUAGE PROCESSING; LINGUISTICS; MALE; ORTHOGRAPHY; PHONETICS; READING; SCHOOL CHILD; VISION; VISUAL STIMULATION;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; AGE FACTORS; ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE; AWARENESS; CASE-CONTROL STUDIES; CHILD; COGNITION; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; PERCEPTUAL DISORDERS; PHONETICS; PHOTIC STIMULATION; READING; VOCABULARY;

EID: 84872400112     PISSN: 00283932     EISSN: 18733514     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia.2012.11.016     Document Type: Article

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