Reading problems and their connection with visual search and attention.

Autor: Sigurdardottir HM; Icelandic Vision Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland., Omarsdottir HR; Icelandic Vision Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland., Valgeirsdottir AS; Icelandic Vision Lab, Department of Psychology, University of Iceland, Reykjavik, Iceland.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Dyslexia (Chichester, England) [Dyslexia] 2024 May; Vol. 30 (2), pp. e1764.
DOI: 10.1002/dys.1764
Abstrakt: Attention has been hypothesized to act as a sequential gating mechanism for the orderly processing of letters and words. These same visuoattentional processes are often assumed to partake in some but not all types of visual search. In the current study, 24 dyslexic and 36 typical readers completed an attentionally demanding visual conjunction search. Visual feature search served as an internal control. It has been suggested that reading problems should go hand in hand with specific problems in visual conjunction search-particularly elevated conjunction search slopes (time per search item)-often interpreted as a problem with visual attention. Results showed that reading problems were associated with slower visual search, especially conjunction search. However, reading deficits were not associated with increased conjunction search slopes but instead with increased search intercepts, traditionally not interpreted as reflecting attention. We discuss these results in the context of hypothesized visuoattentional problems in dyslexia. Remaining open to multiple interpretations of the data, the current study demonstrates that difficulties in visual search are associated with reading problems, in accordance with growing literature on visual cognition problems in developmental dyslexia.
(© 2024 John Wiley & Sons Ltd.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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