The association between visual attention and reading development has been investigated
as a possible core causal deficit in dyslexia, in addition to phonological awareness. This …

This critical review examined current issues to do with the role of visual attention in reading.
To do this, we searched for and reviewed 18 recent articles, including all that were found …

Interacting with a cluttered and dynamic environment requires making decisions about
visual information at relevant locations while ignoring irrelevant locations. Typical adults can …

Increasing evidence has shown visual attention span to be a factor, distinct from
phonological skills, that explains single‐word identification (pseudo‐word/word reading) …

Poor phonological processing has typically been considered the main cause of dyslexia.
However, visuo‐attentional processing abnormalities have been described as well. The goal …

Attention is a neurocognitive process composed by subprocesses located in several brain
areas and controlled by specific neurotransmitters (Petersen & Posner, 2012). This process …

There is strong converging evidence suggesting that developmental dyslexia stems from a
phonological processing deficit. However, this hypothesis has been challenged by the …

Although developmental reading disorders (developmental dyslexia) have been mainly
associated with auditory-phonological deficits, recent longitudinal and training studies have …

After decades of finding a range of cognitive functions both in visual and phonological
domains that correlate with reading performance, there are in recent years attempts to solve …

Although the issue of visual skills in relation to word reading has not been central to recent
explorations of reading development, all visual word reading involves visual skill. Children …