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Visual statistical learning and orthographic awareness in Chinese children with and without developmental dyslexia
- Source :
- Research in developmental disabilities. 92
- Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- This study examined the role of visual statistical learning in reading and writing and its relationship to orthographic awareness in Hong Kong Chinese children with and without developmental dyslexia. Thirty-five 7- to 8-year-old children with developmental dyslexia and 37 chronologically age-matched controls were tested on visual statistical learning, orthographic awareness, nonverbal cognitive ability, Chinese word reading, and word dictation tasks. Visual statistical learning was assessed using a triplet learning paradigm that required children to detect the temporal order of visual stimuli. Orthographic awareness was measured with a novel character invention task that required children to create pseudocharacters using untaught stroke patterns according to the rules of Chinese character orthography. Children with dyslexia performed significantly worse than their age-matched controls on both the visual statistical learning and orthographic awareness tasks. Furthermore, visual statistical learning was significantly associated with orthographic awareness and word reading. These findings suggest that Chinese children with dyslexia are impaired in visual statistical learning and that such deficits may be related to disrupted orthographic learning abilities, thereby contributing to their reading difficulties.
- Subjects :
- Male
030506 rehabilitation
Visual perception
media_common.quotation_subject
Writing
Spatial Learning
Task (project management)
Dyslexia
03 medical and health sciences
Nonverbal communication
Cognition
Asian People
Reading (process)
Developmental and Educational Psychology
medicine
Humans
0501 psychology and cognitive sciences
Child
media_common
Language Tests
Dictation
05 social sciences
medicine.disease
Form Perception
Clinical Psychology
Pattern Recognition, Visual
Reading
Motor Skills
Female
0305 other medical science
Psychology
Orthography
050104 developmental & child psychology
Cognitive psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 18733379
- Volume :
- 92
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Research in developmental disabilities
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....56a1ddeaa5d5fe16794e2072fef34fed