Is developmental dyslexia due to a visual and not a phonological impairment?

R Werth - Brain Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
… It is a widely held belief that developmental dyslexia (DD) is a … theory of dyslexia assumes
that DD is a visual disorder … that dyslexia is not exclusively due to a magnocellular deficit

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

S Valdois - Dyslexia, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… a deficit of visual attention in dyslexic individuals with impaired VAS but further suggests a
selective endogenous attentional system deficit … Therefore, we might expect a link between the …

Words as visual objects: Neural and behavioral evidence for high-level visual impairments in dyslexia

HM Sigurdardottir, IM Ólafsdóttir, H Devillez - Brain Sciences, 2021 - mdpi.com
… behavior that provides evidence for a link between high-level visual impairment and dyslexia.
visual deficits, such as lower visual acuity. Such problems might, however, be attributed to …

The role of visual attention in dyslexia: Behavioral and neurobiological evidence

N Taran, R Farah, M DiFrancesco, M Altaye… - Human brain …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
… that the reading deficit in dyslexia is closely linked to EF: children with dyslexia often show
… the neurobiological correlates for the visual attention deficit in individuals with dyslexia. …

Faces and words are both associated and dissociated as evidenced by visual problems in dyslexia

HM Sigurdardottir, A Arnardottir, ET Halldorsdottir - Scientific Reports, 2021 - nature.com
Dyslexia is also traditionally thought to be a non-visual deficit. Counter to both ideas, face
perception deficits in dyslexia … for a link between high-level visual impairment and dyslexia, …

It is the egg, not the chicken; dorsal visual deficits present in dyslexia are not present in illiterate adults

S Flint, K Pammer - Dyslexia, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
… occur as a consequence of failing to learn to read rather than being causally linked, then we
would expect that individuals who have never learned to read would similarly have impaired …

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
… of a visual deficit. Alternatively, if they are slow on a RAN task but also have a visual deficit,
one … out the extent to which a phonological deficit, a visual deficit, or both are responsible for …

Visual attention and neural oscillations in reading and dyslexia: Are they possible targets for remediation?

TR Vidyasagar - Neuropsychologia, 2019 - Elsevier
… the phonological and visual deficits as well as the reading impairment in developmental
dyslexia. This … Finally, to close the link between any visual magnocellular deficits and a temporal …

[HTML][HTML] Visual dyslexia: towards an operational definition from a correlational study

C Aleci, E Belcastro - Annals of Eye Science, 2020 - aes.amegroups.org
… than the visual persistence time found in dyslexic subjects. … temporal deficit (be it motion
perception or visual persistence) in … In regard to this, it worth reminding that a link between …

Visual word form processing deficits driven by severity of reading impairments in children with developmental dyslexia

S Brem, U Maurer, M Kronbichler, M Schurz… - Scientific reports, 2020 - nature.com
deficits have been suggested to play a central role for the impairments seen in dyslexia 3 ,
processing visual words … In addition the strong structural and functional link of the VWFA to the …