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Abstract
We report a study that investigated the widely held belief that naming-speed deficits in developmental dyslexia reflect impaired access to lexical-phonological codes. To investigate this issue, we compared adult dyslexic and adult non-dyslexic readers’ performance when naming and semantically categorizing arrays of objects. Dyslexic readers yielded slower response latencies than non-dyslexic readers when naming objects, but a subsequent comparison of object-naming and object-categorization tasks showed that the apparent ‘naming’ deficit could be attributed to a more general difficulty in retrieving information – either phonological or semantic – from the visual stimulus. Our findings suggest that although visual–phonological connections may be crucial in explaining naming-speed performance they do not fully characterise dyslexic readers’ naming-speed impairments.
Original language | English |
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Pages (from-to) | 56-70 |
Journal | Cognition |
Volume | 116 |
Issue number | 1 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jul 2010 |
Keywords / Materials (for Non-textual outputs)
- Dyslexia
- Rapid automatized naming
- Eye-tracking
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Reading fluency in normally developed and dyslexic reading: How importtant is Parafoveal versus Foveal processing
1/08/09 → 31/07/10
Project: Research