Dyslexia: a deficit in visuo-spatial attention, not in phonological processing

TR Vidyasagar, K Pammer - Trends in cognitive sciences, 2010 - cell.com
Developmental dyslexia affects up to 10 per cent of the population and it is important to
understand its causes. It is widely assumed that phonological deficits, that is, deficits in how …

Reading disability in adjudicated youth: Prevalence rates, current models, traditional and innovative treatments

J Shelley-Tremblay, N O'Brien… - Aggression and Violent …, 2007 - Elsevier
This paper reviews current literature from two distinct but overlapping domains: juvenile
delinquency (JD) and reading disability (RD). In light of the substantial evidence that RD is …

[HTML][HTML] Improving dorsal stream function in dyslexics by training figure/ground motion discrimination improves attention, reading fluency, and working memory

T Lawton - Frontiers in human neuroscience, 2016 - frontiersin.org
There is an ongoing debate about whether the cause of dyslexia is based on linguistic,
auditory, or visual timing deficits. To investigate this issue three interventions were …

[HTML][HTML] Reading into neuronal oscillations in the visual system: implications for developmental dyslexia

TR Vidyasagar - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2013 - frontiersin.org
While phonological impairments are common in developmental dyslexia, there has recently
been much debate as to whether there is a causal link between the phonological difficulties …

[HTML][HTML] Training on movement figure-ground discrimination remediates low-level visual timing deficits in the dorsal stream, improving high-level cognitive functioning …

T Lawton, J Shelley-Tremblay - Frontiers in Human Neuroscience, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The purpose of this study was to determine whether neurotraining to discriminate a moving
test pattern relative to a stationary background, figure-ground discrimination, improves vision …

[HTML][HTML] The effect of magnocellular-based visual-motor intervention on Chinese children with developmental dyslexia

Y Qian, HY Bi - Frontiers in psychology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
Magnocellular (M) deficit theory points out that the core deficit of developmental dyslexia
(DD) is the impairment in M pathway, which has been evidenced in many previous studies …

Auditory and visual processing in children with dyslexia

CM Wright, EG Conlon - Developmental Neuropsychology, 2009 - Taylor & Francis
This study investigated the temporal stability and longitudinal replicability of visual and
auditory sensory processes found to be poor in children with dyslexia. Seventy children with …

Effect of oculomotor vision rehabilitation on the visual-evoked potential and visual attention in mild traumatic brain injury

NK Yadav, P Thiagarajan, KJ Ciuffreda - Brain injury, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
Primary objective: The purpose of the experiment was to investigate the effect of oculomotor
vision rehabilitation (OVR) on the visual-evoked potential (VEP) and visual attention in the …

Is there a common linkage among reading comprehension, visual attention, and magnocellular processing?

HA Solan, JF Shelley-Tremblay… - Journal of Learning …, 2007 - journals.sagepub.com
The authors examined the relationships between reading comprehension, visual attention,
and magnocellular processing in 42 Grade 7 students. The goal was to quantify the …

Relationships between global motion and global form processing, practice, cognitive and visual processing in adults with dyslexia or visual discomfort

EG Conlon, MA Sanders, CM Wright - Neuropsychologia, 2009 - Elsevier
The aim of the first of two experiments was to investigate the effect of practice on sensitivity
to global motion and global form in a group of adults with dyslexia, a group of normal …