ArticlePloS one2018
Visual attention span performance in German-speaking children with differential reading and spelling profiles: No evidence of group differences.
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- Visuo-Attentional and Phonological Deficits Explored in French Students with Dyslexia: Eye Movements Recorded during a Phonological Lexical Decision Task.Neurology international · 2024Article
- Global visual attention SPAN in different video game genres.Scientific reports · 2023Article
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- Shallow or deep? The impact of orthographic depth on visual processing impairments in developmental dyslexia.Annals of dyslexia · 2022Article
- Visual attention and reading: A test of their relation across paradigms.Journal of experimental child psychology · 2022Article
- What Is Going on with Visual Attention in Reading and Dyslexia? A Critical Review of Recent Studies.Brain sciences · 2022Review
- Phonology-independent general orthographic knowledge.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2021Article
- Electrophysiological correlates of visual attention span in Chinese adults with poor reading fluency.Experimental brain research · 2021Article
- Attention extends beyond single words in beginning readers.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2021Article
- Prediction of Chinese Reading Fluency by Verbal and Non-verbal Visual Attention Span Measures.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Developmental Differences in the Relationship Between Visual Attention Span and Chinese Reading Fluency.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
- Remediation of Allophonic Perception and Visual Attention Span in Developmental Dyslexia: A Joint Assay.Frontiers in psychology · 2019Article
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Abstract
An impairment in the visual attention span (VAS) has been suggested to hamper reading performance of individuals with dyslexia. It is not clear, however, if the very nature of the deficit is visual or verbal and, importantly, if it affects spelling skills as well. The current study investigated VAS by means of forced choice tasks with letters and symbols in a sample of third and fourth graders with age-adequate reading and spelling skills (n = 43), a typical dyslexia profile with combined reading and spelling deficits (n = 26) and isolated spelling deficits (n = 32). The task was devised to contain low phonological short-term memory load and to overcome the limitations of oral reports. Notably, eye-movements were monitored to control that children fixated the center of the display when stimuli were presented. Results yielded no main effect of group as well as no group-related interactions, thus showing that children with dyslexia and isolated spelling deficits did not manifest a VAS deficit for letters or symbols once certain methodological aspects were controlled for. The present results could not replicate previous evidence for the involvement of VAS in reading and dyslexia.
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