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 …

The visual attention span (VAS) deficit theory of developmental dyslexia (DD) indicates that
impaired VAS may cause reading disabilities. However, whether people with dyslexia have …

The processing of letters within strings is challenging for beginning readers. Letter
identification is affected by visual similarity, loss of information with eccentricity and …

Child maltreatment can adversely affect brain development, leading to vulnerabilities in
brain structure and function and various psychiatric disorders. Among the various types of …

It has been suggested that developmental dyslexia may have two dissociable causes—a
phonological deficit and a visual attention span (VAS) deficit. Yet, neural evidence for such a …

What are the causes of dyslexia? Decades of research reflect a determined search for a
single cause where a common assumption is that dyslexia is a consequence of problems …

A wide share of secondary school children does not reach the expected competence level in
reading. These children could benefit from more efficient intervention responses, providing a …

After decades of finding a range of cognitive functions both in visual and phonological
domains that correlate with reading performance, there are in recent years attempts to solve …

Visual attention span (VAS), which refers to the window size of multielement parallel
processing in a short time, plays an important role in higher‐level cognition (eg, reading) as …

Categorical perception of phonemes and visual attention span are cognitive processes that
contribute independently to poor reading skills in developmental dyslexia. We here explored …