Selective attention and laterally in good and poor readers.
Good and poor readers recalled lists of three pairs of competing digits presented either Dichotically (separated by ear) or Spectral-Monotically (separated by voice frequency) and at different rates of presentation. Poor readers showed a reduced ability to attenuate unattended channels and, unlike good readers, showed poorest performance at the fast rate. These results suggest a specific attentional deficit, not merely representative of the poor readers' general tendency to do poorly on difficult language related tasks.
D001288:Attention; D002648:Child; D003221:Confusion / Q000523:psychology; D004292:Dominance, Cerebral; D004410:Dyslexia / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D013067:Speech Perception