The relationship between visuo-spatial attention and nonword reading in developmental dyslexia

A Facoetti, M Zorzi, L Cestnick, ML Lorusso… - Cognitive …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Focused visuo-spatial attention was studied in 10 developmental dyslexic children with
impaired nonword reading, 10 dyslexic children with intact nonword reading, and 12 …

Multisensory spatial attention deficits are predictive of phonological decoding skills in developmental dyslexia

A Facoetti, AN Trussardi, M Ruffino… - Journal of cognitive …, 2010 - direct.mit.edu
Although the dominant approach posits that developmental dyslexia arises from deficits in
systems that are exclusively linguistic in nature (ie, phonological deficit theory), dyslexics …

Sluggish engagement and disengagement of non-spatial attention in dyslexic children

A Facoetti, M Ruffino, A Peru, P Paganoni, L Chelazzi - Cortex, 2008 - Elsevier
Although the dominant view posits that developmental dyslexia arises from a deficit in
phonological processing and memory, efficient phonological decoding requires precise …

The role of visual spatial attention in adult developmental dyslexia

NL Collis, S Kohnen… - Quarterly Journal of …, 2013 - journals.sagepub.com
The present study investigated the nature of visual spatial attention deficits in adults with
developmental dyslexia, using a partial report task with five-letter, digit, and symbol strings …

The relationship between language-processing and visual-processing deficits in developmental dyslexia

L Cestnick, M Coltheart - Cognition, 1999 - Elsevier
Some research on developmental dyslexia focuses on linguistic abnormalities such as poor
reading of nonwords or poor reading of exception words. Other research focuses on visual …

Visual deficits in developmental dyslexia: relationships between non‐linguistic visual tasks and their contribution to components of reading

MW Jones, HP Branigan, ML Kelly - Dyslexia, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Developmental dyslexia is often characterized by a visual deficit, but the nature of this
impairment and how it relates to reading ability is disputed (Brain 2003; 126: 841–865). In …

Auditory and visual automatic attention deficits in developmental dyslexia

A Facoetti, ML Lorusso, P Paganoni, C Cattaneo… - Cognitive brain …, 2003 - Elsevier
Several studies have provided evidence for a phonological deficit in developmental
dyslexia. However, recent studies provide evidence for a multimodal temporal processing …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial and temporal attention in developmental dyslexia

M Ruffino, S Gori, D Boccardi, M Molteni… - Frontiers in human …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Although the dominant view posits that developmental dyslexia (DD) arises from a deficit in
phonological processing, emerging evidence suggest that DD could result from a more …

Visual spatial attention and speech segmentation are both impaired in preschoolers at familial risk for developmental dyslexia

A Facoetti, N Corradi, M Ruffino, S Gori, M Zorzi - Dyslexia, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Phonological skills are foundational of reading acquisition and impaired phonological
processing is widely assumed to characterize dyslexic individuals. However, reading by …

The role of visual attention in dyslexia: Behavioral and neurobiological evidence

N Taran, R Farah, M DiFrancesco, M Altaye… - Human brain …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Poor phonological processing has typically been considered the main cause of dyslexia.
However, visuo‐attentional processing abnormalities have been described as well. The goal …