Attentional blink deficits observed in dyslexia depend on task demands.

Journal article

The attentional blink (AB) refers to a deficit in the ability to identify a second target following a first target when both appear randomly within a rapid sequence of distractor items. The AB of five adults with dyslexia (ADys) was compared with that of a group of normal adult readers. Two tasks were completed which differed in the conceptual category of the target items (a red digit or letter) relative to the distractor items (all black digits). In the digit condition, all ADys cases showed...

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Authors: Buchholz, J; Aimola Davies, A

• Journal: Vision research
• Volume: 47
• Issue: 10
• Pages: 1292-1302
• Publication date: 2007-05-01
• DOI: 10.1016/j.visres.2006.11.028
• EISSN: 1878-5646
• ISSN: 0042-6989
• Language: English
• Keywords: Adult; Visual Perception; Attention; Blinking; Color Perception; Perceptual Masking; Dyslexia; Middle Aged; Humans; Pattern Recognition, Visual; Reaction Time; Photic Stimulation