title: Reading abilities: importance of visual-spatial attention.
abstract: Children with dyslexia may read poorly for several reasons. Recent research suggests that in addition to skills with language sounds, visual-spatial attention may be an important predictor of reading abilities.
authors.affiliation: Department of Brain and Cognitive Sciences and McGovern Institute for Brain Research, MIT, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA. gabrieli@mit.edu
authors.forename: John D E
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Gabrieli
authors.forename: Elizabeth S
authors.initials: ES
authors.lastname: Norton
mesh_terms: D015984:Causality; D006801:Humans; D011932:Reading; D014796:Visual Perception