Sensory theories of developmental dyslexia: Three challenges for research

Nature Reviews Neuroscience

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 43-54

  Goswami, Usha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

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Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE MODULATION; ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER; COGNITION; COGNITIVE DEVELOPMENT; CONTROLLED CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); CROWDING (AREA); DEVELOPMENTAL DISORDER; DEVELOPMENTAL DYSLEXIA; DYSLEXIA; ELECTROENCEPHALOGRAM; ENVIRONMENTAL ENRICHMENT; EYE MOVEMENT CONTROL; HUMAN; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; METHODOLOGY; NEUROIMAGING; PHONETICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REACTION TIME; READING; RECOGNITION; RESPONSE TIME; REVIEW; SACCADIC EYE MOVEMENT; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; SENSORY DYSFUNCTION; SENSORY STIMULATION; SKILL; VISUAL INFORMATION; VISUAL SYSTEM; WORD RECOGNITION; COMPLICATION; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; MEDICAL RESEARCH; PERCEPTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SENSORY NERVE;

AFFERENT PATHWAYS; BIOMEDICAL RESEARCH; DYSLEXIA; HUMANS; PERCEPTION; SENSATION DISORDERS;

EID: 84921693006     PISSN: 1471003X     EISSN: 14710048     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nrn3836     Document Type: Review

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