Impaired processing of spatiotemporal visual attention engagement deficits in Chinese children with developmental dyslexia

Baojun Duan, Xiaoling Tang, Datao Wang, Yanjun Zhang, Guihua An, Huan Wang, Aibao Zhou · 2024

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Baojun Duan and co-authors studied visual attention in Chinese children with dyslexia, in this 2024 paper. Reading in Chinese draws heavily on spatial focus. Past work showed weak orienting of attention in these children, but how attention engages over time was unclear.

Children did a task with two masks shown in quick order at varied gaps and spots. The dyslexia group showed a clear time-based flaw in the masking effect. At the shortest gap, their accuracy in the center spot fell below that of age peers, and the effect was larger there than at longer gaps. Spatial flaws appeared at all three spots. The authors link the pattern to Chinese reading demands.

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CREATORBaojun Duan, Xiaoling Tang, Datao Wang, Yanjun Zhang, Guihua An, Huan Wang, Aibao Zhou
YEAR2024
COLLECTIONPAPERS
FORMATTXT
FILE SIZE35 KB
VERSION1.0
LICENSECC BY 4.0
RIGHTSCC BY
SOURCEEurope PMC

Source: https://europepmc.org/articles/PMC11620018

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