Impaired Visual Search in Dyslexia Relates to the Role of the Magnocellular Pathway in Attention

dc.contributor.authorPammer, Kristen
dc.date.accessioned2015-12-13T23:40:39Z
dc.date.issued1999
dc.date.updated2015-12-12T09:29:59Z
dc.description.abstractWE tested the hypothesis that in a cluttered visual scene, the magnocellular (M) pathway is crucial for focusing attention serially on the objects in the field. Since developmental dyslexia is commonly associated with an M pathway deficit, we compared reading impaired children and age- matched normal readers in a search task that required the detection of a target defined by the conjunction of two features, namely form and colour, that are processed by the parvocellular dominated ventral neocortical stream. The dyslexic group's performance was significantly poorer than the controls when there were a large number of distractor items. The scheme of selective attention proposed from these results provides a neural mechanism that underlies reading and explains the pathophysiology of dyslexia.
dc.identifier.issn0959-4965
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1885/94568
dc.publisherLippincott Williams & Wilkins
dc.sourceNeuroReport
dc.subjectKeywords: article; clinical article; color; controlled study; dyslexia; human; nerve tract; pattern recognition; priority journal; school child; selective attention; task performance; visual discrimination; visual impairment; Analysis of Variance; Attention; Child; Attentional spotlight; Magnocellular and parvocellular pathways; Reading impairment; Serial search; Striate cortex
dc.titleImpaired Visual Search in Dyslexia Relates to the Role of the Magnocellular Pathway in Attention
dc.typeJournal article
local.bibliographicCitation.lastpage1287
local.bibliographicCitation.startpage1283
local.contributor.affiliationPammer, Kristen, College of Medicine, Biology and Environment, ANU
local.contributor.authoremailu9602956@anu.edu.au
local.contributor.authoruidPammer, Kristen, u9602956
local.description.embargo2037-12-31
local.description.notesImported from ARIES
local.description.refereedYes
local.identifier.absfor170101 - Biological Psychology (Neuropsychology, Psychopharmacology, Physiological Psychology)
local.identifier.ariespublicationMigratedxPub24177
local.identifier.citationvolume10
local.identifier.scopusID2-s2.0-0033606053
local.identifier.uidSubmittedByMigrated
local.type.statusPublished Version

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