Action video games improve reading abilities and visual-to-auditory attentional shifting in English-speaking children with dyslexia

Scientific Reports

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2017, Pages

  Franceschini, Sandro ^a,b   Trevisan, Piergiorgio ^c   Ronconi, Luca ^a,b,d   Bertoni, Sara ^a   Colmar, Susan ^e   Double, Kit ^e   Facoetti, Andrea ^a,b   Gori, Simone ^b,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b SCIENTIFIC INSTITUTE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TRENTO   (Italy)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BERGAMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; CHILD; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HEARING; HUMAN; LANGUAGE; MALE; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; READING; SHORT TERM MEMORY; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE; VIDEO GAME; VISION; VOCABULARY;

ADOLESCENT; ATTENTION; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; CHILD; DYSLEXIA; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE; MALE; MEMORY, SHORT-TERM; READING; SPEECH; TASK PERFORMANCE AND ANALYSIS; VIDEO GAMES; VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 85025462748     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20452322     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-05826-8     Document Type: Article

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