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Visual Processing as Revealed by ERPS: Dyslexic and Normal Readers

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Part of the book series: Neuropsychology and Cognition ((NPCO,volume 22))

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Abstract

Although perceptual processes during reading are activated by the visual and auditory modalities the activation itself starts with visual identification and perception of printed materials. The basic question of interest in this chapter is whether visual processing among dyslexics is impaired when compared with that of regular readers. The focus of this chapter is to review electrophysiological studies pertaining to the visual modality and the table summarizing the research results of these studies indicates a clear difference in cerebral cortical activation during visual processing among dyslexic and regular readers. An in-depth-analysis of various studies indicates differences resulting from different research populations, subjects’ age as well from design of the various experimental paradigms.

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