ArticleScientific reports2022
Visuo-spatial attention deficit in children with reading difficulties.
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- From Visual Attention to Literacy: Symbol Search Deficit Predicts Future Reading Difficulties From Age 3.Developmental science · 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
- Linking Attention Deficits to Difficulties in the Comprehension of Complex Syntax in Dyslexia.Dyslexia (Chichester, England) · 2026Article
- Improving Reading and Eye Movement Control in Readers with Oculomotor and Visuo-Attentional Deficits.Journal of eye movement research · 2025Article
- Anxiety in youth with and without specific learning disorders: exploring the relationships with inhibitory control, perfectionism, and self-conscious emotions.Frontiers in behavioral neuroscience · 2025Article
- Impaired processing of spatiotemporal visual attention engagement deficits in Chinese children with developmental dyslexia.Journal of vision · 2024Article
- Pulsed lighting for adults with Dyslexia: very limited impact, confined to individuals with severe reading deficits.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Visuo-Attentional and Phonological Deficits Explored in French Students with Dyslexia: Eye Movements Recorded during a Phonological Lexical Decision Task.Neurology international · 2024Article
- Adults at low reading level are sluggish in disengaging spatial attention.Attention, perception & psychophysics · 2024Article
- Dyslexia Due to Visual Impairments.Biomedicines · 2023Article
- Dyslexia: Causes and Concomitant Impairments.Brain sciences · 2023Review
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Abstract
Although developmental reading disorders (developmental dyslexia) have been mainly associated with auditory-phonological deficits, recent longitudinal and training studies have shown a possible causal role of visuo-attentional skills in reading acquisition. Indeed, visuo-attentional mechanisms could be involved in the orthographic processing of the letter string and the graphemic parsing that precede the grapheme-to-phoneme mapping. Here, we used a simple paper-and-pencil task composed of three labyrinths to measure visuo-spatial attention in a large sample of primary school children (n = 398). In comparison to visual search tasks requiring visual working memory, our labyrinth task mainly measures distributed and focused visuo-spatial attention, also controlling for sensorimotor learning. Compared to typical readers (n = 340), children with reading difficulties (n = 58) showed clear visuo-spatial attention impairments that appear not linked to motor coordination and procedural learning skills implicated in this paper and pencil task. Since visual attention is dysfunctional in about 40% of the children with reading difficulties, an efficient reading remediation program should integrate both auditory-phonological and visuo-attentional interventions.
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