Number-processing skills in adults with dyslexia.

Journal article

The present study investigated basic numerical skills and arithmetic in adults with developmental dyslexia. Participants performed exact and approximate calculation, basic numerical tasks (e.g., counting; symbolic number comparison; spatial-numerical association of response codes, SNARC), and visuospatial tasks (mental rotation and visual search tasks). The group with dyslexia showed a marginal impairment in counting compared to age- and IQ-matched controls, and they were impaired in exact ad...

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Authors: Gobel, S; Snowling, M

• Publication status: Published
• Journal: Quarterly journal of experimental psychology (2006)
• Volume: 63
• Issue: 7
• Pages: 1361-1373
• Publication date: 2010-07-01
• DOI: 10.1080/17470210903359206
• EISSN: 1747-0226
• ISSN: 1747-0218
• Language: English
• Keywords: Reading; Dyslexia; Mathematics; Neuropsychological Tests; Space Perception; Male; Cognition; Memory, Short-Term; Attention; Humans; Adolescent; Female; Mental Processes; Young Adult; Photic Stimulation