Many children who have unusual difficulty learning to read complain of visual perceptual
anomalies, such as the letters appearing to blur, move around, or split into two. Naturally …

In a recent review, Bernt Skottun1 strongly attacked the hypothesis that some dyslexics show
impaired development of the magnocellular pathway of their visual systems. Significantly …

The late 19th neurological concept of dyslexia had 3 crucial elements: selectively poor
reading, with unaffected other cognitive skills and a genetic background. The contemporary …

Ihave recently reviewed a substantial portion of the data bearing on magnocellular deficits in
dyslexia1. The main conclusion of this review is that although there are clearly studies that …

The hypothesis of a mild magnocellular deficit in a large number of dyslexics has been
challenged many times in the past. In fact, there have been more studies that failed to verify …

This chapter shows that visual skills do in fact correlate remarkably well with reading
performance, and that many children with reading problems have unstable visual …

One hypothesis about the aetiology of developmental dyslexia is that it is partially caused by
a deficit of the magnocellular pathway. Previous research (Omtzigt, Hendriks, and Kolk …

Developmental dyslexics often complain that small letters appear to blur and move around
when they are trying to read. Anatomical, electrophysiological, psychophysical and brain …

Recent research has shown that reading disabled children find it unusually difficult to detect
flickering or moving visual stimuli, consistent with impaired processing in the magnocellular …

Previous research has suggested that visual magnocellular impairment may be
characteristic of up to 75% of developmental dyslexics. In this study we compared 18 adult …