The magnocellular deficit theory of dyslexia suggests a selective impairment in contrast
detection of stimuli involving pure magnocellular response (eg Gabor patches of 0.5 c/deg …

Dyslexia is more than just difficulty with translating letters into sounds. Many dyslexics have
problems with clearly seeing letters and their order. These difficulties may be caused by …

The data bearing on the magnocellular or transient system deficit theory of dyslexia
(Lovegrove et al., 1986, 1990; Livingstone et al., 1991) are highly conflicting. While some …

Some people doubt that the concept of developmental dyslexia (DD) is useful at all because
the phonological weaknesses seen in DD cannot be distinguished from those found in every …

Numerous studies have found visual deficits associated with dyslexia. This has made it
important to understand how these deficits may be related to reading difficulties. A widely …

Many reports suggest that the majority of dyslexic children have a measurable disorder of
the fast processing pathway of the visual system. This pathway is believed to extend from the …

Despite proving its usefulness for over a century, the concept of developmental dyslexia
(DD) is currently in severe disarray because of the recent introduction of the phonological …

The question of whether developmental dyslexia even exists gets debated about every 10
years because of the difficulty of defining it precisely, and still more the difficulty of treating it …

It has been proposed that developmental dyslexia is associated with a deficit in the
magnocellular pathway of the visual system. Other research focuses upon the …

Since the first reports of cases of developmental dyslexia at the beginning of the last century,
the challenge has been to understand why some children with otherwise normal intellectual …