诵读困难
认知心理学
心理学
任务(项目管理)
阅读(过程)
模棱两可
发展心理学
计算机科学
语言学
程序设计语言
哲学
管理
经济
作者
Mahalakshmi Ramamurthy,Alex White,Jason D. Yeatman
标识
DOI:10.31219/osf.io/s53ke
摘要
In the search for mechanisms that contribute to dyslexia, the term “attention” has been invoked to explain performance in a variety of tasks, creating confusion since all tasks do, indeed, demand “attention”. Many studies lack an experimental manipulation of attention that would be necessary to determine its influence on task performance. Nonetheless, an emerging view is that children with dyslexia have an impairment in the exogenous (automatic/reflexive) orienting of spatial attention. Here we investigated the link between exogenous attention and reading ability by presenting exogenous spatial cues in the multi-letter processing task - a task relevant for reading. The task was gamified and administered online to a large sample of children (N=187) between 6 and 17 years. Children with dyslexia performed worse overall at rapidly recognizing and reporting strings of letters. However, we found no evidence for a difference in the utilization of exogenous spatial cues, resolving two decades of ambiguity in the field. Previous studies that claimed otherwise may have failed to distinguish attention effects from overall task performance or found spurious group differences in small samples.
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