No solid empirical evidence for the SOLID (serial order learning impairment) hypothesis of dyslexia

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning Memory and Cognition

Volumn 41, Issue 3, 2015, Pages 650-669

  Staels, Eva ^a   Van den Broeck, Wim ^a  

^a VRIJE UNIVERSITEIT BRUSSEL   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Dyslexia; Hebb learning; Sequence learning; Serial order learning; Short term memory

Indexed keywords

CHILD; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMAN; LANGUAGE TEST; LEARNING; MALE; MEMORY; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOLOGIC TEST; PSYCHOLOGICAL MODEL; PSYCHOLOGY; READING; YOUNG ADULT;

CHILD; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MEMORY; MODELS, PSYCHOLOGICAL; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; READING; SERIAL LEARNING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84929025654     PISSN: 02787393     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1037/xlm0000054     Document Type: Article

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