The eye movements of dyslexic children during reading and visual search: Impact of the visual attention span. Prado, C., Dubois, M., & Valdois, S. Vision Research, 47(19):2521–2530, 2007.
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The eye movements of 14 French dyslexic children having a VA span reduction and 14 normal readers were compared in two tasks of visual search and text reading. The dyslexic participants made a higher number of rightward fixations in reading only. They simultaneously processed the same low number of letters in both tasks whereas normal readers processed far more letters in reading. Importantly, the children's VA span abilities related to the number of letters simultaneously processed in reading. The atypical eye movements of some dyslexic readers in reading thus appear to reflect difficulties to increase their VA span according to the task request. \textcopyright 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
@article{prado2007eye,
abstract = {The eye movements of 14 French dyslexic children having a VA span reduction and 14 normal readers were compared in two tasks of visual search and text reading. The dyslexic participants made a higher number of rightward fixations in reading only. They simultaneously processed the same low number of letters in both tasks whereas normal readers processed far more letters in reading. Importantly, the children's VA span abilities related to the number of letters simultaneously processed in reading. The atypical eye movements of some dyslexic readers in reading thus appear to reflect difficulties to increase their VA span according to the task request. {\textcopyright} 2007 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.},
author = {Prado, Chlo{\'{e}} and Dubois, Matthieu and Valdois, Sylviane},
doi = {10.1016/j.visres.2007.06.001},
isbn = {0042-6989},
issn = {00426989},
journal = {Vision Research},
keywords = {Children,Children,Dyslexia,Eye movements,Text reading,Visual attention span},
mendeley-tags = {Children},
number = {19},
pages = {2521--2530},
pmid = {17719073},
title = {{The eye movements of dyslexic children during reading and visual search: Impact of the visual attention span}},
volume = {47},
year = {2007}
}

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