Developmental dyslexia

RL Peterson, BF Pennington - The lancet, 2012 - thelancet.com
Dyslexia is a neurodevelopmental disorder that is characterised by slow and inaccurate
word recognition. Dyslexia has been reported in every culture studied, and mounting …

The visual‐attention span deficit in developmental dyslexia: Review of evidence for a visual‐attention‐based deficit

S Valdois - Dyslexia, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The visual attention span (VAS) deficit hypothesis in developmental dyslexia posits that a
subset of dyslexic individuals shows a multielement parallel processing deficit due to …

Influence of the visual attention span on child reading performance: a cross‐sectional study

ML Bosse, S Valdois - Journal of research in reading, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
The visual attention (VA) span deficit hypothesis was found successfully to account for
variability in developmental dyslexia (Bosse, Tainturier & Valdois, 2007). We conducted a …

New insights on developmental dyslexia subtypes: Heterogeneity of mixed reading profiles

R Zoubrinetzky, F Bielle, S Valdois - PloS one, 2014 - journals.plos.org
We examined whether classifications based on reading performance are relevant to identify
cognitively homogeneous subgroups of dyslexic children. Each of the 71 dyslexic …

Developmental dyslexia: The difficulties of interpreting poor performance, and the importance of normal performance

F Ramus, M Ahissar - Cognitive neuropsychology, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
This paper provides a selective review of data on phonology, audition, vision, and learning
abilities in developmental dyslexia, with a specific focus on patterns of normal alongside …

Rapid processing of letters, digits and symbols: What purely visual‐attentional deficit in developmental dyslexia?

JC Ziegler, C Pech‐Georgel, S Dufau… - Developmental …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Visual‐attentional theories of dyslexia predict deficits for dyslexic children not only for the
perception of letter strings but also for non‐alphanumeric symbol strings. This prediction was …

The VWFA: it's not just for words anymore

AC Vogel, SE Petersen, BL Schlaggar - Frontiers in human …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Reading is an important but phylogenetically new skill. While neuroimaging studies have
identified brain regions used in reading, it is unclear to what extent these regions become …

The putative visual word form area is functionally connected to the dorsal attention network

AC Vogel, FM Miezin, SE Petersen… - Cerebral cortex, 2012 - academic.oup.com
The putative visual word form area (pVWFA) is the most consistently activated region in
single word reading studies (ie,), yet its function remains a matter of debate. The pVWFA …

Neural dissociation of phonological and visual attention span disorders in developmental dyslexia: FMRI evidence from two case reports

C Peyrin, M Lallier, JF Demonet, C Pernet, M Baciu… - Brain and language, 2012 - Elsevier
A dissociation between phonological and visual attention (VA) span disorders has been
reported in dyslexic children. This study investigates whether this cognitively-based …

Cross-linguistic transfer in bilinguals reading in two alphabetic orthographies: The grain size accommodation hypothesis

M Lallier, M Carreiras - Psychonomic bulletin & review, 2018 - Springer
Reading acquisition is one of the most complex and demanding learning processes faced
by children in their first years of schooling. If reading acquisition is challenging in one …