Dyslexia: an overview

SO Wajuihian, KS Naidoo - African Vision and Eye Health, 2011 - avehjournal.org
… ) in the dyslexics has also been speculated to be linked to the … phonological deficit theory,
the other symptoms of dyslexia are … The visual deficit (also known as magnocellular) theory …

[HTML][HTML] Understanding developmental dyslexia: linking perceptual and cognitive deficits to reading processes

P Zoccolotti, PF De Jong, D Spinelli - Frontiers in human …, 2016 - frontiersin.org
… perceptual and linguistic processes specifically involved in reading (such as orthographic
learning ability or the ability to deal with multiple-stimulus displays) and on the other try to link

[HTML][HTML] Isolating the impact of visual perception on dyslexics' reading ability

MM Shovman, M Ahissar - Vision research, 2006 - Elsevier
visual deficits in our sample, we analyzed separately the performance of the subgroup of
dyslexics (4/20) who reported years of visual … was not to assess dyslexicsvisual deficits. In fact, …

Neural underpinnings of dyslexia as a disorder of visuo‐spatial attention

TR Vidyasagar - Clinical and Experimental Optometry, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
… relationship between dyslexia and attentional deficits that suggests a causal link. The … that
no single visual deficit can be blamed as the underlying cause of developmental dyslexia. This …

[HTML][HTML] The magnocellular deficit theory of dyslexia: the evidence from contrast sensitivity

BC Skottun - Vision research, 2000 - Elsevier
… from contrast sensitivity studies for a magnocellular deficit in dyslexia is highly conflicting.
The summary … since these studies also are consistent with the absence of any visual deficit. …

[HTML][HTML] Faces and words are both associated and dissociated as evidenced by visual problems in dyslexia

HM Sigurdardottir, A Arnardottir, ET Halldorsdottir - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Dyslexia is also traditionally thought to be a non-visual deficit. Counter to both ideas, face
perception deficits in dyslexia … for a link between high-level visual impairment and dyslexia, …

Visual stress in adults with and without dyslexia

C Singleton, S Trotter - Journal of Research in Reading, 2005 - Wiley Online Library
… other theories, many of which saw dyslexia as a deficit in visual processing of some kind.
In his … on possible mechanisms of linkage between dyslexia and visual stress, including the …

Learning disabilities, dyslexia, and vision

SM Handler, WM Fierson… - …, 2011 - publications.aap.org
… Recent genetic-linkage studies have identified many loci at which dyslexia-related genes
are … Visual deficits of the types from the early literature were found to be no more prevalent in …

Attention deficits in dyslexia: Evidence for an automatisation deficit?

E Moores, R Nicolson, A Fawcett - European Journal of Cognitive …, 2003 - Taylor & Francis
deficits have recently been linked with dyslexia. We report two studies comparing the
performance of dyslexic … attention rapidlyÐmight be associated with dyslexia. However, although …

On the prevalence of magnocellular deficits in the visual system of non-dyslexic individuals

J Skoyles, BC Skottun - Brain and language, 2004 - Elsevier
… have found visual deficits associated with dyslexia. This has … However, we show that because
the prevalence of dyslexia … -dyslexic and dyslexic individuals with magnocellular deficits. …