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 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

The development of reading skills may depend to a certain extent on the development of
basic visual perception. The magnocellular theory of developmental dyslexia assumes that …

Developmental dyslexics perform differently from controls on a number of low level visual
tasks. We carried out three experiments to explore some of these differences. Dyslexics …

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 …

Developmental dyslexia is a specific reading disability that affects 5–10% of the population.
Recent studies have suggested that dyslexics may experience a deficit in the visual …

The aim of this study was to investigate the theory that visual magnocellular deficits seen in
groups with dyslexia are linked to reading via the mechanisms of visual attention. Visual …