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ArticleScientific reports2019

Magnocellular Based Visual Motion Training Improves Reading in Persian.

Leila Ebrahimi, Hamidreza Pouretemad, Ali Khatibi, John Stein

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Article in Scientific reports, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it, 33 citations in OpenAlex.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 3 countries.

Leila EbrahimiInstitute for Cognitive & Brain Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.
Hamidreza PouretemadInstitute for Cognitive & Brain Sciences, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran. h-pouretemad@sbu.ac.ir.
Ali KhatibiDepartment of Psychology, Bilkent University, 06800, Ankara, Turkey.ORCID 0000-0003-0679-0499
John SteinTehran-Oxford Neurodevelopmental Center, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran.ORCID 0000-0001-5843-8986
Institute for Cognitive Science Studies · IRBilkent University · TRUniversity of Oxford · GB

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The visual magnocellular system is thought to play a crucial role in learning to read. Here therefore, we examined whether magnocellular based training could improve reading in children with visual reading problems. The participants were 24 male primary school students aged between 9-11 (Mean = 9.76, SD = 0.59) with specific reading difficulty. Experimental and control groups were matched for age, sex, educational level, IQ, reading abilities (measured by APRA), magnocellular performance as assessed by a random dot kinematogram (RDK) paradigm and recordings of their saccadic eye movements. The experimental group received twelve magnocellular based visual motion training sessions, twice a week over 6 weeks. During the same period, the control group played a video game with the help of a practitioner. All measures were made just prior to the training and were repeated at the 6

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DyslexiaEye MovementsReadingBasal Nucleus of MeynertChildHumansMaleMotion PerceptionVision DisordersVisual Pathways

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PMID30718620
PMCPMC6361887
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