ArticleJournal of cognition2023
The Role of Visual Factors in Dyslexia.
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- Visual and Oculomotor Function in Developmental Dyslexia: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.Ophthalmic & physiological optics : the journal of the British College of Ophthalmic Opticians (Optometrists) · 2026Pooled it
- Emerging technologies and neuroscience-based approaches in dyslexia: a narrative review toward integrative and personalized solutions.Frontiers in human neuroscience · 2025Pooled it
- Dispelling Myths and Misunderstandings About Defining and Remediating Dyslexia.Dyslexia (Chichester, England) · 2026Review
- The specific nature of the statistical learning deficit in developmental dyslexia: Impaired temporal and spared spatial learning abilities.Psychonomic bulletin & review · 2026Article
- Rapid decay of perceptual memory in dyslexia.Trends in cognitive sciences · 2026Review
- A Preliminary Evaluation of Dyslexie's Influence on Adult Dyslexic Reading Performance.Behavior analysis in practice · 2025Article
- Mirror invariance dies hard during letter processing by dyslexic college students.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- Modality switching in children - is there an influence of modality compatibility?Psychological research · 2025Article
- Anatomical and behavioural correlates of auditory perception in developmental dyslexia.Brain : a journal of neurology · 2025Article
- Visual processing and decision-making in autism and dyslexia: Insights from cross-syndrome approaches.Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006) · 2024Review
- Neurocognitive mechanisms of co-occurring math difficulties in dyslexia: Differences in executive function and visuospatial processing.Developmental science · 2024Article
- Atypical reliance on monocular visual pathway for face and word recognition in developmental dyslexia.Brain and cognition · 2024Article
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Abstract
What are the causes of dyslexia? Decades of research reflect a determined search for a single cause where a common assumption is that dyslexia is a consequence of problems with converting phonological information into lexical codes. But reading is a highly complex activity requiring many well-functioning mechanisms, and several different visual problems have been documented in dyslexic readers. We critically review evidence from various sources for the role of visual factors in dyslexia, from magnocellular dysfunction through accounts based on abnormal eye movements and attentional processing, to recent proposals that problems with high-level vision contribute to dyslexia. We believe that the role of visual problems in dyslexia has been underestimated in the literature, to the detriment of the understanding and treatment of the disorder. We propose that rather than focusing on a single core cause, the role of visual factors in dyslexia fits well with risk and resilience models that assume that several variables interact throughout prenatal and postnatal development to either promote or hinder efficient reading.
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