A meta-analytic review of cognition and reading difficulties: Individual differences, moderation, and language mediation mechanisms.

P Peng, Z Zhang, W Wang, K Lee, T Wang… - Psychological …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
Based on 378 studies, 541 independent samples, and over 34,000 participants, the current
meta-analysis aimed to explore the associations between cognition and reading difficulties …

The visual‐attention span deficit in developmental dyslexia: Review of evidence for a visual‐attention‐based deficit

S Valdois - Dyslexia, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The visual attention span (VAS) deficit hypothesis in developmental dyslexia posits that a
subset of dyslexic individuals shows a multielement parallel processing deficit due to …

Involvement of the dorsal and ventral attention networks in visual attention span

J Zhao, J Wang, C Huang, P Liang - Human brain mapping, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Visual attention span (VAS), which refers to the window size of multielement parallel
processing in a short time, plays an important role in higher‐level cognition (eg, reading) as …

The role of visual-spatial attention in reading development: a meta-analysis

L Gavril, A Roșan, Ș Szamosközi - Cognitive Neuropsychology, 2021 - Taylor & Francis
The association between visual attention and reading development has been investigated
as a possible core causal deficit in dyslexia, in addition to phonological awareness. This …

Double trouble: visual and phonological impairments in English dyslexic readers

S Provazza, AM Adams, D Giofrè… - Frontiers in …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Developmental dyslexia is a reading disorder characterized by problems in accurate or
fluent reading. A deficiency in phonological processing is thought to underpin the reading …

Visual attention span capacity in developmental dyslexia: A meta-analysis

J Liu, X Ren, Y Wang, J Zhao - Research in Developmental Disabilities, 2023 - Elsevier
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 …

Improving sentence reading performance in Chinese children with developmental dyslexia by training based on visual attention span

J Zhao, H Liu, J Li, H Sun, Z Liu, J Gao, Y Liu… - Scientific reports, 2019 - nature.com
Deficits in the visual attention span (VAS) are thought to hamper reading performance in
dyslexic individuals. However, the causal relationship between VAS deficits and reading …

Visual attention modulates the transition from fine-grained, serial processing to coarser-grained, more parallel processing: A computational modeling study

A Steinhilber, J Diard, E Ginestet, S Valdois - Vision Research, 2023 - Elsevier
During reading acquisition, beginning readers transition from serial to more parallel
processing. The acquisition of word specific knowledge through orthographic learning is …

What is going on with visual attention in reading and dyslexia? A critical review of recent studies

C Perry, H Long - Brain Sciences, 2022 - mdpi.com
This critical review examined current issues to do with the role of visual attention in reading.
To do this, we searched for and reviewed 18 recent articles, including all that were found …

A neural index of inefficient evidence accumulation in dyslexia underlying slow perceptual decision making

NR Stefanac, SH Zhou, MM Spencer-Smith… - Cortex, 2021 - Elsevier
Visual processing deficits have been widely reported in developmental dyslexia however
the locus of cognitive dysfunction remains unclear. Here, we examined the neural correlates …