This paper gives an overview of the literature on the visuo-perceptual and visuo-attentional
deficits of dyslexic children. The hypothesis that visuo-attentional problems cooccur with …

Developmental dyslexia is defined by reading impairments that are disproportionate to
intelligence, motivation, and the educational opportunities considered necessary for …

In order to test the hypothesis of attentional deficits in dyslexia, we investigated the
performance of children with developmental dyslexia on a number of visual search tasks …

A dissociation between phonological and visual attention (VA) span disorders has been
reported in dyslexic children. This study investigates whether this cognitively-based …

Developmental dyslexia (DD) is a neurobiological disorder (see Habib, 2000; Démonet &
Reilhac, 2012 in the present book for reviews) characterized by difficulties in reading …

An impairment in the visual attention span (VAS) has been suggested to hamper reading
performance of individuals with dyslexia. It is not clear, however, if the very nature of the …

Background It has been debated whether visual attention span deficit was independent from
phonological deficit in alphabetic developmental dyslexia. Yet, this issue has never been …

Reading acquisition requires, in addition to appropriate phonological abilities, accurate and
rapid selection of sublexical orthographic units by attentional letter string parsing. Spatio …

Developmental dyslexia is a learning disorder characterized by difficulties reading words
accurately and/or fluently. Several behavioral studies have suggested the presence of …

In the search for mechanisms that contribute to dyslexia, the term “attention” has been
invoked to explain performance in a variety of tasks, creating confusion since all tasks do …