Sound can improve visual search in developmental dyslexia
We examined whether developmental dyslexic adults suffer from sluggish attentional shifting (SAS; Hari and Renvall in Trends Cogn Sci 5:525–532, 2001) by measuring their shifting of attention in a visual search task with dynamic cluttered displays (Van der Burg et al. in J Exp Psychol Human 34:1053–...
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author | de Boer-Schellekens, Liselotte Vroomen, Jean |
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description | We examined whether developmental dyslexic adults suffer from sluggish attentional shifting (SAS; Hari and Renvall in Trends Cogn Sci 5:525–532, 2001) by measuring their shifting of attention in a visual search task with dynamic cluttered displays (Van der Burg et al. in J Exp Psychol Human 34:1053–1065, 2008). Dyslexics were generally slower than normal readers in searching a horizontal or vertical target among oblique distracters. However, the addition of a click sound presented in synchrony with a color change of the target drastically improved their performance up to the level of the normal readers. These results are in line with the idea that developmental dyslexics have specific problems in disengaging attention from the current fixation, and that the phasic alerting by a sound can compensate for this deficit. |
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spelling | pubmed-32584002012-01-23 Sound can improve visual search in developmental dyslexia de Boer-Schellekens, Liselotte Vroomen, Jean Exp Brain Res Research Article We examined whether developmental dyslexic adults suffer from sluggish attentional shifting (SAS; Hari and Renvall in Trends Cogn Sci 5:525–532, 2001) by measuring their shifting of attention in a visual search task with dynamic cluttered displays (Van der Burg et al. in J Exp Psychol Human 34:1053–1065, 2008). Dyslexics were generally slower than normal readers in searching a horizontal or vertical target among oblique distracters. However, the addition of a click sound presented in synchrony with a color change of the target drastically improved their performance up to the level of the normal readers. These results are in line with the idea that developmental dyslexics have specific problems in disengaging attention from the current fixation, and that the phasic alerting by a sound can compensate for this deficit. Springer-Verlag 2011-11-08 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3258400/ /pubmed/22064932 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00221-011-2926-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2011 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Research Article de Boer-Schellekens, Liselotte Vroomen, Jean Sound can improve visual search in developmental dyslexia |
title | Sound can improve visual search in developmental dyslexia |
title_full | Sound can improve visual search in developmental dyslexia |
title_fullStr | Sound can improve visual search in developmental dyslexia |
title_full_unstemmed | Sound can improve visual search in developmental dyslexia |
title_short | Sound can improve visual search in developmental dyslexia |
title_sort | sound can improve visual search in developmental dyslexia |
topic | Research Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3258400/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22064932 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s00221-011-2926-2 |
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