ArticleBrain sciences2020
Visual Attentional Training Improves Reading Capabilities in Children with Dyslexia: An Eye Tracker Study During a Reading Task.
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- Is learning a logographic script easier than reading an alphabetic script for German children with dyslexia?PloS one · 2023Trial
- Eye-tracking training improves the learning and memory of children with learning difficulty.Scientific reports · 2022Trial
- Action video game training improves text reading accuracy, rate and comprehension in children with dyslexia: a randomized controlled trial.Scientific reports · 2021Trial
- Probing the use of visual search as a tool to enhance reading speed.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2026Article
- Visual Rehabilitation for Kindergarten Children with Developmental Delay: Case Series.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Eye-Tracking-Based Interventions for School-Age Specific Learning Disorders: A Narrative Review of Functional Assessment and Gaze-Contingent Training.Journal of eye movement research · 2026Review
- Associations Between Eye-Movement Patterns, Pupil Dynamics, and the Interpretation of a Single Mixed-Dentition Panoramic Radiograph Among Dental Students: An Exploratory Eye-Tracking Study.Vision (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Children with Dyslexia Benefit from Short Combined Reading and Motor Training: Objective Measures Assessed by Eye Movements and Postural Sway Recordings.Brain sciences · 2025Article
- Higher Short- and Long-Term Fluent Reading Abilities Following an Executive Functions-Based Reading Intervention Are Moderated by Executive Functions Improvement in Children With Reading Difficulties.Dyslexia (Chichester, England) · 2025Article
- Improving Reading and Eye Movement Control in Readers with Oculomotor and Visuo-Attentional Deficits.Journal of eye movement research · 2025Article
- Combined Cognitive and Motor Training Improves Reading, Writing and Motor Coordination in Dyslexic Children.Pediatric reports · 2025Article
- Driving Factors in the Development of Eye Movement Patterns in Chinese Reading: The Roles of Linguistic Ability and Oculomotor Maturation.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Perceived depth modulates allocation of attention.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Visual attentional differences in psychology students with and without disabilities: a pilot study assessing the flanker task for prescriptive visual accommodative technologies.Frontiers in psychology · 2025Article
- An Eye Tracker Study on the Understanding of Implicitness in French Elementary School Children.Brain sciences · 2024Article
- Comparison of stereopsis thresholds measured with conventional methods and a new eye tracking method.PloS one · 2023Article
- Effects of an Eye-Tracking Linkage Attention Training System on Cognitive Function Compared to Conventional Computerized Cognitive Training System in Patients with Stroke.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- What Is Going on with Visual Attention in Reading and Dyslexia? A Critical Review of Recent Studies.Brain sciences · 2022Review
- Short Vestibular and Cognitive Training Improves Oral Reading Fluency in Children with Dyslexia.Brain sciences · 2021Article
- Dyslexic Readers Improve without Training When Using a Computer-Guided Reading Strategy.Brain sciences · 2021Article
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Abstract
Dyslexia is a specific disorder in reading abilities. The aim of this study was to explore whether a short visual attentional training could improve reading capabilities in children with reading disorders by changing their oculomotor characteristics. Two groups (G1 and G2) of 25 children with reading disabilities and who are matched in IQ (intelligence quotient), sex, and age participated in the study. The allocation of a subject to a specific group (G1 = experimental group; G2 = control group) was generated in an unpredictable random sequence. The reading task was recorded twice for G1, i.e., before (T1) and after (T2) 10 min of visual attentional training. Training consisted of oculomotor tasks (saccades and pursuits movements) and searching tasks (three different exercises). For G2, the two reading tasks at T1 and T2 were done at an interval of 10 min instead. We found that at T1, oculomotor performances during reading were statistically similar for both groups of children with reading disabilities (G1 and G2). At T2, the group G1 only improved oculomotor capabilities significantly during reading; in particular, children read faster, and their fixation time was shortest. We conclude that short visual attentional training could improve the cortical mechanisms responsible for attention and reading capabilities. Further studies on a larger number of dyslexic children will be necessary in order to explore the effects of different training types on the visual attentional span given its important role on the orienting and focusing visuospatial attention and on the oculomotor performance in children with dyslexia.
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