Title |
Devil in the details? Developmental dyslexia and visual long-term memory for details
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Published in |
Frontiers in Psychology, July 2014
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DOI | 10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00686 |
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Authors |
Lynn Huestegge, Julia Rohrßen, Muna van Ermingen-Marbach, Julia Pape-Neumann, Stefan Heim |
Abstract |
Cognitive theories on causes of developmental dyslexia can be divided into language-specific and general accounts. While the former assume that words are special in that associated processing problems are rooted in language-related cognition (e.g., phonology) deficits, the latter propose that dyslexia is rather rooted in a general impairment of cognitive (e.g., visual and/or auditory) processing streams. In the present study, we examined to what extent dyslexia (typically characterized by poor orthographic representations) may be associated with a general deficit in visual long-term memory (LTM) for details. We compared object- and detail-related visual LTM performance (and phonological skills) between dyslexic primary school children and IQ-, age-, and gender-matched controls. The results revealed that while the overall amount of LTM errors was comparable between groups, dyslexic children exhibited a greater portion of detail-related errors. The results suggest that not only phonological, but also general visual resolution deficits in LTM may play an important role in developmental dyslexia. |
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