Psychophysical indexes of temporal processing abnormalities in children with developmental dyslexia.
Dev Neuropsychol
; 25(3): 321-54, 2004.
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ABSTRACT
Children with dyslexia and children progressing normally in reading performed several perceptual tasks to determine (a) the psychophysical measures that best differentiate children with dyslexia from children with average reading abilities; (b) the extent of temporal processing deficits in a single, well-defined group of children with dyslexia; and (c) the co-occurrence of visual and auditory temporal processing deficits in children with dyslexia. 4 of our 12 psychophysical tasks indicated differences in temporal processing ability between children with dyslexia and children with good reading skills. These included 2 auditory tasks (dichotic pitch perception and FM tone discrimination) and 2 visual tasks (global motion perception and contrast sensitivity). The battery of 12 tasks successfully classified 80% of the children into their respective reading-level groups. Within the group of children with dyslexia who had temporal processing deficits, most were affected in either audition or vision; few children were affected in both modalities. The observed deficits suggest that impaired temporal processing in dyslexia is most evident on tasks that require the ability to synthesize local, temporally modulated inputs into a global percept and the ability to extract the resultant global percept from a noisy environment.
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Assunto principal:
Psicofísica
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Percepção Auditiva
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Transtornos da Percepção Auditiva
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Percepção do Tempo
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Percepção Visual
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Dislexia
Limite:
Adolescent
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Child
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Dev Neuropsychol
Assunto da revista:
NEUROLOGIA
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PSICOLOGIA
Ano de publicação:
2004
Tipo de documento:
Article