Bogon, Johanna and Finke, Kathrin and Stenneken, Prisca (2014) TVA-based assessment of visual attentional functions in developmental dyslexia. FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY, 5: 1172. ISSN 1664-1078
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There is an ongoing debate whether an impairment of visual attentional functions constitutes an additional or even an isolated deficit of developmental dyslexia (DD). Especially performance in tasks that require the processing of multiple visual elements in parallel has been reported to be impaired in DD. We review studies that used parameter-based assessment for identifying and quantifying impaired aspect(s) of visual attention that underlie this multi-element processing deficit in DD. These studies used the mathematical framework provided by the "theory of visual attention" (Bundesen, 1990) to derive quantitative measures of general attentional resources and attentional weighting aspects on the basis of behavioral performance in whole- and partial-report tasks. Based on parameter estimates in children and adults with DD, the reviewed studies support a slowed perceptual processing speed as an underlying primary deficit in DD. Moreover, a reduction in visual short term memory storage capacity seems to present a modulating component, contributing to difficulties in written language processing. Furthermore, comparing the spatial distributions of attentional weights in children and adults suggests that having limited reading and writing skills might impair the development of a slight leftward bias, that is typical for unimpaired adult readers.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | PARAMETER-BASED MEASUREMENT; IN-LINE BISECTION; READING DIRECTION; EYE-MOVEMENTS; SPAN DEFICIT; CHILDREN; COMPONENTS; DISORDER; ADULTS; TASKS; developmental dyslexia; visual attention; processing speed; visual short term memory; spatial bias; top down control; whole- and partial-report task |
| Subjects: | 100 Philosophy & psychology > 150 Psychology |
| Divisions: | Human Sciences > Institut für Psychologie > Lehrstuhl für Psychologie II (Allgemeine und Angewandte Psychologie) - Prof. Dr. Gesine Dreisbach |
| Depositing User: | Petra Gürster |
| Date Deposited: | 07 Aug 2020 06:57 |
| Last Modified: | 07 Aug 2020 06:57 |
| URI: | https://pred.uni-regensburg.de/id/eprint/9347 |
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