@article{ref1,
title="Visual target detection is not impaired in dyslexic readers",
journal="Vision research",
year="2008",
author="Hawelka, Stefan and Wimmer, Heinz",
volume="48",
number="6",
pages="850-852",
abstract="In two previous studies we assessed a difficulty of dyslexic readers with letter string processing by using variants of the partial report paradigm, e.g., Averbach and Coriell [Averbach, E., and Coriell, A. S. (1961). Short-term memory in vision. Bell Systems Technical Journal, 40, 309-328] which requires report of a letter name in response to a position cue. The poor dyslexic performance was interpreted as evidence for a visual-attentional deficit of dyslexic readers. In the present study, we avoided verbal report by using a task which only required the detection of predefined targets (letters or pseudoletters) in strings. On this purely visual task, the dyslexic readers did not differ from non-impaired readers. This finding speaks against a basic visual-attentional deficit; rather it suggests that the dyslexic deficit on partial report paradigms stems from a problem in establishing a string representation which includes position and name codes.   <p></p>  <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0042-6989",
doi="10.1016/j.visres.2007.11.003",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.visres.2007.11.003"
}