Magnocellular-dorsal pathway and sub-lexical route in developmental dyslexia

Frontiers in Human Neuroscience

Volumn 8, Issue JUNE, 2014, Pages

  Gori, Simone ^a,b   Cecchini, Paolo ^c   Bigoni, Anna ^c   Molteni, Massimo ^b   Facoetti, Andrea ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^c Ophthalmological Unit Istituto Scientifico 'E Medea' di San Vito al Tagliamento ^*  (Italy)

Author keywords

Dorsal stream; Phonological decoding; Reading acquisition; Reading disability; Transient system; Visual disorder

Indexed keywords

AGE; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEVELOPMENTAL DYSLEXIA; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; MAGNOCELLULAR DORSAL PATHWAY; MALE; OSCILLATION; PARVOCELLULAR VENTRAL PATHWAY; PERIMETRY; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL NERVOUS SYSTEM; VISUAL STIMULATION; VISUAL THRESHOLD;

EID: 84907034244     PISSN: None     EISSN: 16625161     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3389/fnhum.2014.00460     Document Type: Article

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