Is Reading Impairment Associated with Enhanced Holistic Processing in Comparative Visual Search?

@article{Wang2016IsRI,
  title={Is Reading Impairment Associated with Enhanced Holistic Processing in Comparative Visual Search?},
  author={Jiahui Wang and Matthew H. Schneps and Pavlo D. Antonenko and Chen Chen and Marc Pomplun},
  journal={Dyslexia},
  year={2016},
  volume={22 4},
  pages={
          345-361
        }
}

• Jiahui Wang, Matthew H. Schneps, +2 authors Marc Pomplun
• Published 2016 in Dyslexia
• DOI:10.1002/dys.1540

This study explores a proposition that individuals with dyslexia develop enhanced peripheral vision to process visual-spatial information holistically. Participants included 18 individuals diagnosed with dyslexia and 18 who were not. The experiment used a comparative visual search design consisting of two blocks of 72 trials. Each trial presented two halves of the display each comprising three kinds of shapes in three colours to be compared side-by-side. Participants performed a conjunctive… CONTINUE READING

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