How the visual aspects can be crucial in reading acquisition: The intriguing case of crowding and developmental dyslexia

Journal of Vision

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 1-20

  Gori, Simone ^a,b   Facoetti, Andrea ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Action video games; Crowding; Noise exclusion; Perceptual learning; Reading disorder; Selective attention

Indexed keywords

CROWDING (AREA); DYSLEXIA; HUMAN; LEARNING; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; READING; VISION;

CROWDING; DYSLEXIA; HUMANS; LEARNING; READING; VISUAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 84921668385     PISSN: None     EISSN: 15347362     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1167/15.1.8     Document Type: Article

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