Fractionating the multi-character processing deficit in developmental dyslexia: Evidence from two case studies
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Fractionating the multi-character processing deficit in developmental dyslexia : Evidence from two case studies. / Dubois, Matthieu; Kyllingsbæk, Søren; Prado, Chloé; Musca, Serban C; Peiffer, Elsa; Lassus-Sangosse, Delphine; Valdois, Sylviane.
I: Cortex, Bind 46, Nr. 6, 01.06.2010, s. 717-38.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Fractionating the multi-character processing deficit in developmental dyslexia
T2 - Evidence from two case studies
AU - Dubois, Matthieu
AU - Kyllingsbæk, Søren
AU - Prado, Chloé
AU - Musca, Serban C
AU - Peiffer, Elsa
AU - Lassus-Sangosse, Delphine
AU - Valdois, Sylviane
N1 - Copyright (c) 2010. Published by Elsevier Srl.
PY - 2010/6/1
Y1 - 2010/6/1
N2 - While there is growing evidence that some dyslexic children suffer from a deficit in simultaneously processing multiple visually displayed elements, the precise nature of the deficit remains largely unclear. The aim of the present study is to investigate possible cognitive impairments at the source of this deficit in dyslexic children. The visual processing of simultaneously presented letters was thus thoroughly assessed in two dyslexic children by means of a task that requires the report of briefly presented multi-letters arrays. A computational model of the attentional involvement in multi-object recognition (Bundesen, 1990, 1998) served as framework for analysing the data. By combining psychophysical measurements with computational modelling, we demonstrated that the visual processing deficit of simultaneously displayed letters, observed in the two dyslexic individuals reported in the current study, stems from at least two distinct cognitive sources: a reduction of the rate of-letter-information uptake, and a limitation of the maximal number of elements extracted from a brief visual display and stored in visual short-term memory. Possible relations between these impairments and learning to read proficiently are discussed.
AB - While there is growing evidence that some dyslexic children suffer from a deficit in simultaneously processing multiple visually displayed elements, the precise nature of the deficit remains largely unclear. The aim of the present study is to investigate possible cognitive impairments at the source of this deficit in dyslexic children. The visual processing of simultaneously presented letters was thus thoroughly assessed in two dyslexic children by means of a task that requires the report of briefly presented multi-letters arrays. A computational model of the attentional involvement in multi-object recognition (Bundesen, 1990, 1998) served as framework for analysing the data. By combining psychophysical measurements with computational modelling, we demonstrated that the visual processing deficit of simultaneously displayed letters, observed in the two dyslexic individuals reported in the current study, stems from at least two distinct cognitive sources: a reduction of the rate of-letter-information uptake, and a limitation of the maximal number of elements extracted from a brief visual display and stored in visual short-term memory. Possible relations between these impairments and learning to read proficiently are discussed.
KW - Attention
KW - Child
KW - Cognition Disorders
KW - Computer Simulation
KW - Dyslexia
KW - Female
KW - Humans
KW - Language Tests
KW - Male
KW - Memory, Short-Term
KW - Models, Neurological
KW - Neuropsychological Tests
KW - Photic Stimulation
KW - Psychophysics
KW - Recognition (Psychology)
KW - Visual Perception
U2 - 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.11.002
DO - 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.11.002
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 20116054
VL - 46
SP - 717
EP - 738
JO - Cortex
JF - Cortex
SN - 0010-9452
IS - 6
ER -
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