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1. Word length effect in early reading and in developmental dyslexia.

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Zoccolotti P, De Luca M, Di Pace E, Gasperini F, Judica A, and Spinelli D

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Child, Female, Humans, Male, Phonetics, Reaction Time, Semantics, Dyslexia physiopathology, Reading, Visual Perception physiology
Abstract

Vocal reaction times were measured in Italian dyslexics and in proficient readers while they read single words. Three groups of control participants (for a total of 79) were tested. All were in the first, second or third grade of elementary school. Nine third graders with a low level of reading ability when assessed by standard reading procedures were also tested. Results indicated that vocal RTs of control participants were faster and less sensitive to word length as a function of age; also, there was a particularly marked change between first and second graders. Dyslexics' vocal RTs and errors were much worse than those of peer control participants and resembled those of first grade controls. It is suggested that normal readers in an orthographically transparent language (Italian) adopt a lexical strategy quite early in their learning. On the contrary, dyslexics seem unable to learn this mode of processing and continue to use a sub-lexical reading procedure.

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2005
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3. Developmental surface dyslexia is not associated with deficits in the transient visual system

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Donatella Spinelli, Anna Judica, Di Pace E, Paola Angelelli, De Luca M, Pierluigi Zoccolotti, Spinelli, Donatella, Angelelli, Paola, DE LUCA, Maria, DI PACE, Enrico, Judica, Anna, and Zoccolotti, Pierluigi

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Male, Fovea Centralis, medicine.medical_specialty, transient visual system, developmental dyslexia, Adolescent, media_common.quotation_subject, Developmental dyslexia, Spatial frequency, Surface dyslexia, Transient system, Neuropsychological Tests, Audiology, Contrast Sensitivity, Dyslexia, Cognition, Communication disorder, Reading (process), medicine, Humans, Contrast (vision), Language disorder, Child, media_common, General Neuroscience, Parafovea, medicine.disease, Reading, Sensory Thresholds, Time Perception, Female, Psychology, Photic Stimulation, Homophone, Cognitive psychology, Surface dyslexia
Abstract

DEFICITS of the transient visual system have been reported in unselected groups of dyslexics. The aim of this study was to examine whether this finding holds when subjects with a specific type of developmental reading disorder (surface dyslexia) are considered. Ten Italian children were examined. They all presented the characteristic markers of surface dyslexia: slow and labo- rious reading with errors in tasks which cannot be solved with a grapheme-phoneme conversion (i.e. homo- phones). Contrast sensitivity thresholds to phase- reversal gratings were within normal limits for most subjects both for stimuli presented centrally and in the right parafovea. This indicates that developmental surface dyslexia is not associated with a deficit in the transient system. In contrast, sensitivity to high spatial frequency stationary stimuli was reduced

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