ArticleProceedings. Biological sciences2017
Left-right asymmetry of the Maxwell spot centroids in adults without and with dyslexia.
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- Combined Cognitive and Motor Training Improves Reading, Writing and Motor Coordination in Dyslexic Children.Pediatric reports · 2025Article
- Invited reply: Comment on 'Left-right asymmetry of the Maxwell spot centroids in adults without and with dyslexia'.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Hebbian Optocontrol of Cross-Modal Disruptive Reading in Increasing Acoustic Noise in an Adult with Developmental Coordination Disorder: A Case Report.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Pulsed lighting for adults with Dyslexia: very limited impact, confined to individuals with severe reading deficits.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Comment on Le Floch & Ropars (2017) 'Left-right asymmetry of the Maxwell spot centroids in adults without and with dyslexia'.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2024Article
- Hebbian Control of Fixations in a Dyslexic Reader: A Case Report.Brain sciences · 2023Article
- Does word flickering improve reading? Negative evidence from four experiments using low and high frequencies.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2023Article
- Polarization perception in humans: on the origin of and relationship between Maxwell's spot and Haidinger's brushes.Scientific reports · 2020Article
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Abstract
In human vision, the brain has to select one view of the world from our two eyes. However, the existence of a clear anatomical asymmetry providing an initial imbalance for normal neural development is still not understood. Using a so-called foveascope, we found that for a cohort of 30 normal adults, the two blue cone-free areas at the centre of the foveas are asymmetrical. The noise-stimulated afterimage dominant eye introduced here corresponds to the circular blue cone-free area, while the non-dominant eye corresponds to the diffuse and irregular elliptical outline. By contrast, we found that this asymmetry is absent or frustrated in a similar cohort of 30 adults with normal ocular status, but with dyslexia, i.e. with visual and phonological deficits. In this case, our results show that the two Maxwell centroid outlines are both circular but lead to an undetermined afterimage dominance with a coexistence of primary and mirror images. The interplay between the lack of asymmetry and the development in the neural maturation of the brain pathways suggests new implications in both fundamental and biomedical sciences.
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