Investigating the role of visual and auditory search in reading and developmental dyslexia

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn , Issue SEP, 2013, Pages

  Lallier, Marie ^a   Donnadieu, Sophie ^b,c   Valdois, Sylviane ^b,d  

^a BASQUE CENTER ON COGNITION   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE MENDÈS FRANCE   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE SAVOIE   (France)

^d Centre National pour la Recherche Scientifique   (France)

Author keywords

Attention; Auditory search; Dyslexia; Phonology; Reading; Temporal processing; Visual attention span; Visual search

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ATTENTION; AUDITORY STIMULATION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DYSLEXIA; DIRECTIONAL HEARING; DYSLEXIA; EYE TRACKING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE ABILITY; NEUROPATHOLOGY; READING; RESPONSE TIME; SCHOOL CHILD; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL STIMULATION;

EID: 84884696363     PISSN: 16625161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2013.00597     Document Type: Article

References (67)

1. Ans, B., Carbonnel, S., and Valdois, S. (1998). A connectionist multiple-trace memory model for polysyllabic word reading. Psychol. Rev. 105, 678. doi: 10.1037/0033-295X.105.4.678-723
2. Belopolsky, A. V., and Theeuwes, J. (2009). When are attention and saccade preparation dissociated? Psychol. Sci. 20, 1340-1347. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02445.x
3. Ben-Yehudah, G., and Ahissar, M. (2004). Sequential spatial frequency discrimination is consistently impaired among adult dyslexics. Vision Res. 44, 1047-1063. doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2003.12.001
4. Berent, I., Vaknin-Nusbaum, V., Balaban, E., and Galaburda, A. M. (2012). Dyslexia impairs speech recognition but can spare phonological competence. PLoS ONE 7:e44875. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0044875
5. Bosse, M. L., Chaves, N., Largy, P., and Valdois, S. (2013). Orthographic learning during reading: the role of whole-word visual processing. J. Res. Read. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9817.2012.01551.x
6. Bosse, M. L., Tainturier, M. J., and Valdois, S. (2007). Developmental dyslexia: the visual attention span deficit hypothesis. Cognition 104, 198-230. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition. 2006.05.009
7. Bosse, M. L., and Valdois, S. (2009). Influence of the visual attention span on child reading performance: a cross-sectional study. J. Res. Read. 32, 230-253. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9817.2008.01387.x
8. Buchholz, J., and McKone, E. (2004). Adults with dyslexia show deficits on spatial frequency doubling and visual attention tasks. Dyslexia 10, 24-43. doi: 10.1002/dys.263
9. Casco, C., and Prunetti, E. (1996). Visual search of good and poor readers: effects with targets having single and combined features. Percept. Mot. Skills 82, 1155-1167. doi: 10.2466/pms.1996.82.3c.1155
10. Casini, L., Burle, B., and Nguyen, N. (2009). Speech perception engages a general timer: evidence from a divided attention word identification task. Cognition 112, 318-322. doi:10.1016/j.cognition.2009.04.005
11. Conlon, E., Sanders, M., and Zapart, S. (2004). Temporal processing in poor adult readers. Neuropsychologia 42, 142-157. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia. 2003.07.004
12. Coull, J. T., Vidal, F., Nazarian, B., and Macar, F. (2004). Functional anatomy of the attentional modulation of time estimation. Science 303, 1506-1508. doi: 10.1126/sci-ence.1091573
13. Cusack, R., and Carlyon, R. P. (2003). Perceptual asymmetries in audition. J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform. 29, 713-725. doi: 10.1037/0096-1523.29.3.713
14. De Boer-Schellekens, L., and Vroomen, J. (2012). Sound can improve visual search in developmental dyslexia. Exp. Brain Res. 216, 243-248. doi: 10.1007/s00221-011-2926-2
15. Dickie, C., Ota, M., and Clark, A. (2012). Revisiting the phonological deficit in dyslexia: are implicit non-orthographic representations impaired. Appl. Psycholinguist. 1, 1-24.
16. Dole, M., Hoen, M., and Meunier, F. (2012). Speech-in-noise perception deficit in adults with dyslexia: effects of background type and listening configuration. Neuropsychologia 50, 1543-1552. doi: 10.1016/ j.neuropsychologia.2012.03.007
17. Facoetti, A., Lorusso, M. L., Cattaneo, C., Galli, R., and Molteni, M. (2005). Visual and auditory atten-tional capture are both sluggish in children with developmental dyslexia. Acta Neurobiol. Exp. (Wars) 65, 61-72.
18. Facoetti, A., Lorusso, M. L., Paganoni, P., Cattaneo, C., Galli, R., Umiltà, C., et al. (2003). Auditory and visual automatic attention deficits in developmental dyslexia. Cogn. Brain Res. 16, 185-191. doi: 10.1016/S0926-6410(02)00270-7
19. Facoetti, A., Ruffino, M., Peru, A., Paganoni, P., and Chelazzi, L. (2008). Sluggish engagement and disengagement of non-spatial attention in dyslexic children. Cortex 44, 1221-1233. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex. 2007.10.007
20. Facoetti, A., Trussardi, A. N., Ruffino, M., Lorusso, M. L., Cattaneo, C., Galli, R., et al. (2010). Multisensory spatial attention deficits are predictive of phonological decoding skills in developmental dyslexia. J. Cogn. Neurosci. 22, 1011-1025. doi: 10.1162/jocn.2009.21232
21. Franceschini, S., Gori, S., Ruffino, M., Pedrolli, K., and Facoetti, A. (2012). A causal link between visual spatial attention and reading acquisition. Curr. Biol. 22, 814-819. doi: 10.1016/j.cub.2012.03.013
22. Goswami, U. (2011). A temporal sampling framework for developmental dyslexia. Trends Cogn. Sci. 15, 3-10. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2010.10.001
23. Goswami, U., Mead, N., Fosker, T., Huss, M., Barnes, L., and Leong, V. (2013). Impaired perception of syllable stress in children with dyslexia: a longitudinal study. J. Mem. Lang. 69, 1-17. doi: 10.1016/ j.jml.2013.03.001
24. Hämäläinen, J. A., Rupp, A., Soltész, F., Szücs, D., and Goswami, U. (2012). Reduced phase locking to slow amplitude modulation in adults with dyslexia: an MEG study. Neuroimage 59, 2952-2961. doi: 10.1016/j.neuroimage.2011.09.075
25. Hari, R., and Renvall, H. (2001). Impaired processing of rapid stimulus sequences in dyslexia. Trends Cogn. Sci. 5, 525-532. doi: 10.1016/S1364-6613(00)01801-5
26. Hornickel, J., and Kraus, N. (2013). Unstable representation of sound: a biological marker of dyslexia. J. Neurosci. 33, 3500-3504. doi: 10.1523/JNEUROSCI.4205-12.2013
27. Iles, J., Walsh, V., and Richardson, A. (2000). Visual search performance in dyslexia. Dyslexia 6, 163-177. doi: 10.1002/1099-0909(2000 07/09)6:3<163::AID-DYS150>3.0. CO;2-U
28. Jacquier-Roux, M., Valdois, S., and Zorman, M. (2002). Odédys. Outil de dépistage des Dyslexies. Grenoble: Laboratoire cogni-sciences, IUFM de Grenoble.
29. Jolicoeur, P., and Dell'Acqua, R. (1999). Attentional and structural constraints on visual encoding. Psychol. Res. 62, 154-164. doi: 10.1007/ s004260050048
30. Koyama, M. S., Di Martino, A., Kelly, C., Jutagir, D. R., Sunshine, J., Schwartz, S. J., et al. (2013). Cortical signatures of dyslexia and remediation: an intrinsic functional connectivity approach. PLoS ONE 8:e55454. doi: 10.1371/journal. pone.0055454
31. Lallier, M., Donnadieu, S., Berger, C., and Valdois, S. (2010a). A case study of developmental phonological dyslexia: is the attentional deficit in the perception of rapid stimuli sequences amodal? Cortex 46, 231-241. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009. 03.014
32. Lallier, M., Donnadieu, S., and Valdois, S. (2010b). Visual attentional blink in dyslexic children: parameterizing the deficit. Vis. Res. 50, 1855-1861. doi: 10.1016/j.visres.2010.06.006
33. Lallier, M., Tainturier, M. J., Dering, B., Donnadieu, S., Valdois, S., and Thierry, G. (2010c). Behavioral and ERP evidence for amodal sluggish attentional shifting in developmental dyslexia. Neuropsychologia 48, 4125. doi: 10.1016/j.neuropsychologia. 2010.09.027
34. Lallier, M., Donnadieu, S., Thierry, G., Tainturier, M. J., Billard, C., Peyrin, C., et al. (2009). Auditory and visual stream segregation in children and adults: an assessment of the amodality assumption of the 'sluggish attentional shifting' theory of dyslexia. Brain Res. 1302, 132-147. doi: 10.1016/j.brainres.2009.07.037
35. Lallier, M., Donnadieu, S., and Valdois, S. (2012). Developmental dyslexia: exploring how much phonological and visual attention span disorders are linked to simultaneous auditory processing deficits. Ann. Dyslexia 63, 97-116. doi: 10.1007/s11881-012-0074-4
36. Lallier, M., Thierry, G., and Tainturier, M. J. (2013). On the importance of considering individual profiles when investigating the role of auditory sequential deficits in developmental dyslexia. Cognition 126, 121-127. doi: 10.1016/j.cognition. 2012.09.008
37. Lallier, M., and Valdois, S. (2012). "Sequential versus simultaneous processing deficits in developmental dyslexia," in Dyslexia - A Comprehensive and International Approach, eds T. N. Wydell and L. Fern-Pollak, ISBN 978-953-51-0517-6, under CC BY 3.0 license.
38. Lassus-Sangosse, D., N'guyen-Morel, M. A., and Valdois, S. (2008). Sequential or simultaneous visual processing deficit in developmental dyslexia? Vision Res. 48, 979-988. doi: 10.1016/j.visres. 2008.01.025
39. Lefavrais, P. (1967). Test de l'Alouette: Manuel. Paris: Les éditions du Centre de Psychologie Appliquée.
40. Lehongre, K., Ramus, F., Villiermet, N., Schwartz, D., and Giraud, A. L. (2011). Altered low-gamma sampling in auditory cortex accounts for the three main facets of dyslexia. Neuron 72, 1080-1090. doi: 10.1016/j.neuron.2011.11.002
41. Lobier, M., Zoubrinetzky, R., and Valdois, S. (2012). The visual attention span deficit in dyslexia is visual and not verbal. Cortex 48, 768-773. doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2011. 09.003
42. Marendaz, C., Valdois, S., and Walch, J. P. (1996). Dyslexie développe-mentale et attention visuo-spatiale. L'année psychologique 96, 193-224. doi: 10.3406/psy.1996.28893
43. Mattys, S. L., Brooks, J., and Cooke, M. (2009). Recognizing speech under a processing load: dissociating energetic from informational factors. Cogn. Psychol. 59, 203-243. doi: 10.1016/j.cogpsych.2009.04.001
44. Mattys, S. L., and Wiget, L. (2011). Effects of cognitive load on speech recognition. J. Mem. Lang. 65, 145-160. doi: 10.1016/j.jml.2011.04.004
45. Messaoud-Galusi, S., Hazan, V., and Rosen, S. (2011). Investigating speech perception in children with dyslexia: is there evidence of a consistent deficit in individuals? J. Speech Lang. Hear. Res. 54, 1682. doi: 10.1044/1092-4388(2011/09-0261)
46. Pammer, K., Lavis, R., Cooper, C., Hansen, P. C., and Cornelissen, P. L. (2005). Symbol-string sensitivity and adult performance in lexical decision. Brain Lang. 94, 278-296. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2005.01.004
47. Pammer, K., Lavis, R., Hansen, P., and Cornelissen, P. L. (2004). Symbol-string sensitivity and children's reading. Brain Lang. 89, 601-610. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2004.01.009
48. Peyrin, C., Lallier, M., Demonet, J. F., Pernet, C., Baciu, M., Le Bas, J. F., et al. (2012). Neural dissociation of phonological and visual attention span disorders in developmental dyslexia: FMRI evidence from two case reports. Brain Lang. 120, 381-394. doi: 10.1016/j.bandl.2011.12.015
49. Poelmans, H., Luts, H., Vandermosten, M., Boets, B., Ghesquière, P., and Wouters, J. (2011). Reduced sensitivity to slow-rate dynamic auditory information in children with dyslexia. Res. Dev. Disabil. 32, 2810-2819. doi: 10.1016/j.ridd. 2011.05.025
50. Poeppel, D. (2003). The analysis of speech in different temporal integration windows: cerebral later- alization as 'asymmetric sampling in time'. Speech Commun. 41, 245-255. doi: 10.1016/S0167-6393(02)00107-3
51. Prado, C., Dubois, M., and Valdois, S. (2007). The eye movements of dyslexic children during reading and visual search: impact of the visual attention span. Vision Res. 47, 2521-2530. doi: 10.1016/j.visres. 2007.06.001
52. Ram-Tsur, R., Faust, M., and Zivotofsky, A. Z. (2006). Sequential processing deficits of reading disabled persons is independent of inter-stimulus interval. Vision Res. 46, 3949-3960. doi: 10.1016/j.visres. 2006.07.001
53. Ramus, F., and Ahissar, M. (2012). Developmental dyslexia: the difficulties of interpreting poor performance, and the importance of normal performance. Cogn. Neuropsychol. 29, 104-122. doi: 10.1080/02643294.2012.677420
54. Raven, J. C., Court, J. H., and Raven, J. (1998). Progressive Matrices Standard (PM38). Paris: EAP.
55. Robertson, E. K., Joanisse, M. F., Desroches, A. S., and Ng, S. (2009). Categorical speech percep tion deficits distinguish language and reading impairments in children. Dev. Sci. 12, 753-767. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00806.x
56. Sprenger-Charolles, L., Colé, P., Béchennec, D., and Kipffer-Piquard, A. (2005). French normative data on reading and related skills from EVALEC, a new computerized battery of tests (end Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3, and Grade 4). Revue Européenne de Psychologie Appliquée/Eur. Rev. Appl. Psychol. 55, 157-186. doi: 10.1016/j.erap. 2004.11.002
57. Treisman, A. M., and Gelade, G. (1980). A feature-integration theory of attention. Cogn. Psychol. 12, 97-136. doi: 10.1016/0010-0285 (80)90005-5
58. Vandermosten, M., Boets, B., Luts, H., Poelmans, H., Golestani, N., Wouters, J., et al. (2010). Adults with dyslexia are impaired in categorizing speech and nonspeech sounds on the basis of temporal cues. Proc. Natl. Acad. Sci. U.S.A. 107, 10389-10394. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0912858107
59. Vandermosten, M., Boets, B., Luts, H., Poelmans, H., Wouters, J., and Ghesquière, P. (2011). Impairments in speech and nonspeech sound categorization in children with dyslexia are driven by temporal processing difficulties. Res. Dev. Disabil. 32, 593-603. doi: 10.1016/j.ridd.2010.12.015
60. van Ermingen-Marbach, M., Grande, M., Pape-Neumann, J., Sass, K., and Heim, S. (2013). Distinct neural signatures of cognitive subtypes of dyslexia with and without phonological deficits. Neuroimage (Amst.) 2, 477-490. doi: 10.1016/j.nicl.2013. 03.010
61. Vidyasagar, T. R. (2004). Neural underpinnings of dyslexia as a disorder of visuo-spatial attention. Clin. Exp. Optom. 87, 4-10. doi: 10.1111/j. 1444-0938.2004.tb03138.x
62. Vidyasagar, T. R., and Pammer, K. (1999). Impaired visual search in dyslexia relates to the role of the magnocellular pathway in attention. Neuroreport 10, 1283-1287. doi: 10.1097/00001756-199904260-00024
63. Vidyasagar, T. R., and Pammer, K. (2010). Dyslexia: a deficit in visuo-spatial attention, not in phonological processing. Tre n d s Cog n. Sci.14, 57. doi: 10.1016/j.tics.2009. 12.003
64. Wolfe, J., and Horowitz, T. S. (2008). Visual search. Scholarpedia 3, 3325. doi: 10.4249/scholarpedia. 3325
65. Woodman, G. F., Vogel, E. K., and Luck, S. J. (2001). Visual search remains efficient when visual working memory is full. Psychol. Sci. 12, 219-224. doi: 10.1111/1467-9280. 00339
66. Yap, R., and Van der Leij, A. (1993). "Rate of elementary symbol processing in dyslexics," in Facets of Dyslexia and its Remediation, eds S. F. Wright, and R. Groner (Amsterdam: Elsevier Science), 337-347.
67. Ziegler, J. C., Pech-Georgel, C., George, F., and Lorenzi, C. (2009). Speech-perception-in-noise deficits in dyslexia. Dev. Sci. 12, 732-745. doi: 10.1111/j.1467-7687.2009.00817.x