Children with developmental dyslexia show a left visual "minineglect".
We investigated the performance of children with developmental dyslexia on a visual line bisection task. Dyslexic children did not show the overestimation of the left visual field (pseudoneglect) characteristic of normal adult vision. These results suggest that children with developmental dyslexia present selective deficits in visual attention, probably involving neural structures located in the right posterior parietal cortex.
Sireteanu
Ruxandra
R
Department of Neurophysiology, Max-Planck-Institute for Brain Research, Deutschordenstrasse 46, 60528 Frankfurt, Germany. sireteanu@mpih-frankfurt.mpg.de
Goertz
Ralf
R
Bachert
Iris
I
Wandert
Timo
T
D000328:Adult; D001288:Attention; D002648:Child; D004215:Distance Perception; D004410:Dyslexia / Q000523:psychology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010468:Perceptual Disorders / Q000209:etiology*; D010775:Photic Stimulation / Q000379:methods; D011594:Psychometrics