Multisensory spatial attention deficits are predictive of phonological decoding skills in developmental dyslexia

A Facoetti, AN Trussardi, M Ruffino… - Journal of cognitive …, 2010 - direct.mit.edu
Although the dominant approach posits that developmental dyslexia arises from deficits in
systems that are exclusively linguistic in nature (ie, phonological deficit theory), dyslexics …

Visual spatial attention and speech segmentation are both impaired in preschoolers at familial risk for developmental dyslexia

A Facoetti, N Corradi, M Ruffino, S Gori, M Zorzi - Dyslexia, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Phonological skills are foundational of reading acquisition and impaired phonological
processing is widely assumed to characterize dyslexic individuals. However, reading by …

[HTML][HTML] Spatial and temporal attention in developmental dyslexia

M Ruffino, S Gori, D Boccardi, M Molteni… - Frontiers in human …, 2014 - frontiersin.org
Although the dominant view posits that developmental dyslexia (DD) arises from a deficit in
phonological processing, emerging evidence suggest that DD could result from a more …

Auditory and visual automatic attention deficits in developmental dyslexia

A Facoetti, ML Lorusso, P Paganoni, C Cattaneo… - Cognitive brain …, 2003 - Elsevier
Several studies have provided evidence for a phonological deficit in developmental
dyslexia. However, recent studies provide evidence for a multimodal temporal processing …

Sluggish engagement and disengagement of non-spatial attention in dyslexic children

A Facoetti, M Ruffino, A Peru, P Paganoni, L Chelazzi - Cortex, 2008 - Elsevier
Although the dominant view posits that developmental dyslexia arises from a deficit in
phonological processing and memory, efficient phonological decoding requires precise …

Slow perceptual processing at the core of developmental dyslexia: A parameter-based assessment of visual attention

P Stenneken, J Egetemeir, G Schulte-Körne, HJ Müller… - Neuropsychologia, 2011 - Elsevier
The cognitive causes as well as the neurological and genetic basis of developmental
dyslexia, a complex disorder of written language acquisition, are intensely discussed with …

The relationship between visuo-spatial attention and nonword reading in developmental dyslexia

A Facoetti, M Zorzi, L Cestnick, ML Lorusso… - Cognitive …, 2006 - Taylor & Francis
Focused visuo-spatial attention was studied in 10 developmental dyslexic children with
impaired nonword reading, 10 dyslexic children with intact nonword reading, and 12 …

Rapid processing of letters, digits and symbols: What purely visual‐attentional deficit in developmental dyslexia?

JC Ziegler, C Pech‐Georgel, S Dufau… - Developmental …, 2010 - Wiley Online Library
Visual‐attentional theories of dyslexia predict deficits for dyslexic children not only for the
perception of letter strings but also for non‐alphanumeric symbol strings. This prediction was …

Functional characteristics of developmental dyslexia in left-hemispheric posterior brain regions predate reading onset

NM Raschle, J Zuk, N Gaab - Proceedings of the National …, 2012 - National Acad Sciences
Individuals with developmental dyslexia (DD) show a disruption in posterior left-hemispheric
neural networks during phonological processing. Additionally, compensatory mechanisms in …

The angular gyrus in developmental dyslexia: task-specific differences in functional connectivity within posterior cortex

KR Pugh, WE Mencl, BA Shaywitz… - Psychological …, 2000 - journals.sagepub.com
Converging evidence from neuroimaging studies of developmental dyslexia reveals
dysfunction at posterior brain regions centered in and around the angular gyrus in the left …