“Shall we play a game?”: Improving reading through action video games in developmental dyslexia

S Franceschini, S Bertoni, L Ronconi, M Molteni… - Current Developmental …, 2015 - Springer
Impaired linguistic-phonological processing is the most accepted explanation of
developmental dyslexia (DD). However, growing literature shows that DD is the result of the …

Action video games improve reading abilities and visual-to-auditory attentional shifting in English-speaking children with dyslexia

S Franceschini, P Trevisan, L Ronconi, S Bertoni… - Scientific reports, 2017 - nature.com
Dyslexia is characterized by difficulties in learning to read and there is some evidence that
action video games (AVG), without any direct phonological or orthographic stimulation …

Orthographic depth and developmental dyslexia: A meta-analytic study

D Carioti, MF Masia, S Travellini, M Berlingeri - Annals of Dyslexia, 2021 - Springer
Cross-cultural studies have suggested that reading deficits in developmental dyslexia (DD)
can be moderated by orthographic depth. To further explore this issue and assess the …

The ability to learn new written words is modulated by language orthographic consistency

CV Marinelli, P Zoccolotti, C Romani - PLoS one, 2020 - journals.plos.org
Introduction It is well known that a difficulty in forming lexical representations is a strong
predictor of reading and spelling difficulties even after controlling for the effects of other …

The association between reading abilities and visual‐spatial attention in Hong Kong Chinese children

S Liu, D Liu, Z Pan, Z Xu - Dyslexia, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
A growing body of research suggests that visual‐spatial attention is important for reading
achievement. However, few studies have been conducted in non‐alphabetic orthographies …

Visuo-spatial cueing in children with differential reading and spelling profiles

C Banfi, F Kemény, M Gangl, G Schulte-Körne, K Moll… - PLoS …, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Dyslexia has been claimed to be causally related to deficits in visuo-spatial attention. In
particular, inefficient shifting of visual attention during spatial cueing paradigms is assumed …

Dyslexic children are sluggish in disengaging spatial attention

W Fu, J Zhao, Y Ding, Z Wang - Dyslexia, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Previous work has shown that inefficient attentional orienting is likely a causal factor for
dyslexia; however, the nature of this attentional dysfunction remains unclear. The process of …

[PDF][PDF] Étudiants dyslexiques à l'Université: Spécificité des difficultés ressenties et évaluation des déficits

A Mazur-Palandre, R Abadie… - Dév. Rev. Interdiscip …, 2016 - portailsae.uquebec.ca
Après avoir souvent bénéficié d'aides particulières pendant leur scolarité, les étudiants
dyslexiques ne disposent plus de la plupart des aménagements à leur entrée dans …

14 role of visual attention in developmental dyslexia

A Facoetti, S Franceschini, S Gori - … dyslexia across languages …, 2019 - books.google.com
Attention is a neurocognitive process composed by subprocesses located in several brain
areas and controlled by specific neurotransmitters (Petersen & Posner, 2012). This process …

The perceptual span in dyslexic reading and visual search

SG Luke, C Tolley, A Gutierrez, C Smith, T Brown… - …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Many studies have attempted to identify the root cause of dyslexia. Different theories of
dyslexia have proposed either a phonological, attentional, or visual deficit. While research …