… The history of our knowledge about specific reading disability—dyslexia—is checkered with
different hypotheses and theories. In this overview of the literature Frank Vellutino critically …

… of visual attention skills in adults with dyslexia and ADHD. … of dyslexics, some with more
phonological deficits (dysphonetic dyslexia), some with more visual deficits (dyseidetic dyslexia), …

… Other recent findings further suggest that visual deficits are also related to implicit utilization
of stimulus repetition. For example, implicit but not explicit visual rule learning of dyslexics is …

… Dyslexia has been identified as having a strong genetic basis. Recent genetic-linkage studies
have identified many loci at which dyslexia-… Thus, if visual deficits were a major cause of …

… the phonological and visual deficits as well as the reading impairment in developmental
dyslexia. This … Finally, to close the link between any visual magnocellular deficits and a temporal …

… individuals, but it can potentially augment the reading difficulty caused by the visual deficit.
On … in children with developmental dyslexia: auditory and motor rhythms link to reading and …

… -deficit theories of developmental dyslexia. In their comment (Visual attention deficits in
developmental dyslexia … span deficit is a visually driven and independent cause of dyslexia 11 . …

… Although variants of a visual deficit hypothesis of dyslexia are still in evidence (see Eden
et … linked with dyslexic children’s reading impairments, it is a distinct possibility that visual …

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… with other visual deficit assumption such as visual magnocellular deficit hypothesis …

… , and into the basic visual deficit causing visual–spatial attentional problems, as
prescribed by the magnocellular theory. However, this scenario might well be incorrect [ …