Figure 1| The visual attention span task. Variations on the visual attention span task using
alpha‑numeric stimuli (parts aand b) and dots (part c) are shown. Compared with 10‑year …

Small fixational eye-movements are a fundamental aspect of vision and thought to reflect
fine shifts in covert attention during active viewing. While the perceptual benefits of these …

The extent to which adults with dyslexia are characterized by concurrent smooth pursuit eye
movement and phonological difficulties was investigated, as was the relationship between …

Although developmental reading disorders (developmental dyslexia) have been mainly
associated with auditory-phonological deficits, recent longitudinal and training studies have …

Most research on dyslexia to date has focused on early childhood, while comparatively little
is known about the nature of dyslexia in adolescence. The current study had two objectives …

The attentional blink (AB) refers to a decrease in accuracy that occurs when participants are
required to detect the second of two rapidly sequential targets displayed randomly in a …

Although the dominant approach posits that developmental dyslexia arises from deficits in
systems that are exclusively linguistic in nature (ie, phonological deficit theory), dyslexics …

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 …

The visual attention span (VAS) deficit theory of developmental dyslexia (DD) indicates that
impaired VAS may cause reading disabilities. However, whether people with dyslexia have …

We examined whether developmental dyslexic adults suffer from sluggish attentional shifting
(SAS; Hari and Renvall in Trends Cogn Sci 5: 525–532, 2001) by measuring their shifting of …