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Nature Precedings
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United Kingdom
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A few remarks on the relationship between visuo-spatial attention deficits and dyslexia
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| Autores: |
John Skoyles
Bernt C. Skottun
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2011-01-08
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| Ano: |
2011
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Neuroscience
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Dyslexia and attentional problems are often comorbid. This raises the question whether reading deficits might etiologically follow from attentional difficulties, a hypothesis that has been proposed in regard to visuo-spatial attention deficits. This visuo-spatial attention deficit hypothesis would predict that attention deficits should be specific to dyslexia. However, it is here estimated that at the population level there are more non-dyslexic individuals than dyslexic individuals with visuo-spatial attention deficits. The reason for this is that in the overall population level there are far more individuals without dyslexia than with dyslexia. Thus, a relatively modest percentage presence of attention problems in the non-dyslexic population can result in a greater absolute number of on-dyslexic individuals with such problems. It is concluded that attention problems are unlikely to be specific to dyslexia.
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Manuscript
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http://precedings.nature.com/documents/5525/version/1
oai:nature.com:10101/npre.2011.5525.1
http://hdl.handle.net/10101/npre.2011.5525.1
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Nature Precedings
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Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License
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