ArticlePloS one2021
Holistic processing of faces and words predicts reading accuracy and speed in dyslexic readers.
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- Atypical reliance on monocular visual pathway for face and word recognition in developmental dyslexia.Brain and cognition · 2024Article
- Domain Specificity vs. Domain Generality: The Case of Faces and Words.Vision (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Review
- The mechanisms supporting holistic perception of words and faces are not independent.Memory & cognition · 2023Article
- "Calculating faces": can face perception paradigms enrich dyscalculia research?Frontiers in psychology · 2023Review
- The Role of Visual Factors in Dyslexia.Journal of cognition · 2023Article
- Electrophysiological measurements of holistic processing of Chinese characters.Frontiers in psychology · 2022Article
- Faces and words are both associated and dissociated as evidenced by visual problems in dyslexia.Scientific reports · 2021Article
- Holistic processing of Chinese characters in college students with dyslexia.Scientific reports · 2021Article
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Abstract
We compared the performance of dyslexic and typical readers on two perceptual tasks, the Vanderbilt Holistic Face Processing Task and the Holistic Word Processing Task. Both yield a metric of holistic processing that captures the extent to which participants automatically attend to information that is spatially nearby but irrelevant to the task at hand. Our results show, for the first time, that holistic processing of faces is comparable in dyslexic and typical readers but that dyslexic readers show greater holistic processing of words. Remarkably, we show that these metrics predict the performance of dyslexic readers on a standardized reading task, with more holistic processing in both tasks associated with higher accuracy and speed. In contrast, a more holistic style on the words task predicts less accurate reading of both words and pseudowords for typical readers. We discuss how these findings may guide our conceptualization of the visual deficit in dyslexia.
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