The role of visuospatial attention in developmental dyslexia: evidence from a rehabilitation study

Stimulus effects on cancellation task performance in children with and without dyslexia

“…In comparison with children without dyslexia, children with developmental dyslexia may have prolonged attention-dwell time, difficulty shifting attention during visual or auditory processing, and less focused attention on visual tasks. Attention deficits as such are related to poor visual search performance on visual tasks (Casco & Prunetti, 1996;Facoetti, Lorusso, Paganoni, Umiltà, & Mascetti, 2003;Iles et al, 2000;Sireteanu, Goebel, Goertz, & Wandert, 2006). Monitoring children's directed attention would help to identify the visual processing strategies that they use when comprehending their surroundings and reading materials.…”

Studies Related to Dyslexia in Chinese Characters

“…Some studies of dyslexia in alphabetical languages show that the memory and attention processing ability of dyslexic children is worse than that of normal children, [34,35] while studies of dyslexia in Chinese characters mainly focus on the visual memory processing ability. Liu et al [36,37] have investigated the short-term memory and long-term memory of dyslexic Chinese children.…”

Relying on brain rhythms for improving the diagnosis of dyslexia

“…Nonetheless, some of them can also exhibit broader deficits, like reduced working memory and attentional problems (Hari & Renvall, 2001;Laasonen et al, 2012;Vidyasagar & Pammer, 2010), or broad sensory and motor deficits (Facoetti, Lorusso, Paganoni, Umiltà, & Mascetti, 2003;Nicolson, Fawcett, & Dean, 2001;Stoodley, Harrison, & Stein, 2006; see Goswami, 2014 for a review).…”