Hemispheric lateralisation for verbal analysis: do children with reading problems differ from controls?
Specialisation for verbal-sequential analysis in 'dyslexics', poor readers and matched adequate readers was investigated. Groups did not differ on degree of right-ear advantage on the dichotic digits task, suggesting that the poor readers processed digits in the left hemisphere in a similar way to children who read normally. The results cast doubt on theories that 'dyslexia' is related to incomplete lateralisation for verbal analysis.
D000293:Adolescent; D001288:Attention; D002648:Child; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D004410:Dyslexia / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D011939:Mental Recall; D013067:Speech Perception; D014706:Verbal Learning