We investigated the performance of children with developmental dyslexia on a visual line bisection task. Dyslexic children did not show the overestimation of the left visual field (pseudoneglect) characteristic of normal adult vision. These results suggest that children with developmental dyslexia present selective deficits in visual attention, probably involving neural structures located in the right posterior parietal cortex.

The authors investigated the performance of children with developmental dyslexia on a number of visual tasks requiring selective visual attention. Dyslexic children did not show the overestimation of the left visual field (pseudo-neglect) characteristic of normal adult vision. The performance of dyslexic children in texture segmentation and feature search tasks was identical to that of control children matched for age, gender and intelligence. However, when tested on conjunction tasks for orientation and form, dyslexic children showed shorter reaction times and a dramatically increased number of errors. Differences between the two groups decreased with increasing age. These results suggest that children with developmental dyslexia present selective deficits in visual attention.

This study examines the reliability and validity of a German version of the Multidimensional Inventory of Black Identity (MIBI) in a sample of 170 BlackGermans. The internal consistencies of all subscales are at least moderate. The factorial structure of the MIBI, as assessed by principal component analysis, corresponds to a high degree to the supposed underlying dimensional structure. Construct validity was examined by analyzing (a) the intercorrelations of the MIBI subscales and (b) the correlations of the subscales with external variables. Predictive validity was assessed by analyzing the correlations of three MIBI subscales with the level of intra-racial contact. All but one prediction concerning

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