The aim of this study was to investigate the role of several specific neurocognitive functions
in developmental dyslexia (DD). The performances of 60 dyslexic children and 65 age …

Although the dominant approach posits that developmental dyslexia arises from deficits in
systems that are exclusively linguistic in nature (ie, phonological deficit theory), dyslexics …

Reading acquisition requires, in addition to appropriate phonological abilities, accurate and
rapid selection of sublexical orthographic units by attentional letter string parsing. Spatio …

To investigate the mechanisms involved in automatic processing of facial expressions, we
used the QUEST procedure to measure the display durations needed to make a gender …

Difficult visual search is often attributed to time-limited serial attention operations, although
neural computations in the early visual system are parallel. Using probabilistic search …

The relationship between attention and visual masking was investigated in a cued detection
task using a factorial masking manipulation. Stimuli were either unmasked, or were masked …

Perceptual learning has widely been claimed to be attention driven; attention assists in
choosing the relevant sensory information and attention may be necessary in many cases …

Previous studies of visually symptomatic dyslexics have found that their contrast thresholds
for pattern discrimination are the same as non‐dyslexics. However, when noise is added to …

Training has been shown to improve perceptual performance on limited sets of stimuli.
However, whether training can generally improve top-down biasing of visual search in a …

We tested 3 mechanisms of involuntary attention:(1) a perceptual enhancement
mechanism,(2) a response-decision mechanism, and (3) a serial-search mechanism …