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The relationship between sensory sensitivity and reading performance was examined to test the hypothesis that the orthographic and phonological skills engaged in visual word recognition are constrained by the ability to detect dynamic visual and auditory events. A test battery using sensory psychophysics, psychometric tests, and measures of component literacy skills was administered to 32 unselected 10-year-old primary school children. The results suggest that children's sensitivity to both dynamic auditory and visual stimuli are related to their literacy skills. Importantly, after controlling for intelligence and overall reading ability, visual motion sensitivity explained independent variance in orthographic skill but not phonological ability, and auditory FM sensitivity covaried with phonological skill but not orthographic skill. These results support the hypothesis that sensitivity at detecting dynamic stimuli influences normal children's reading skills. Vision and audition separately may affect the ability to extract orthographic and phonological information during reading.
Author(s): Rees A; Green GGR; Talcott JB; Witton C; McLean MF; Hansen PC; Stein JF
Publication type: Article
Publication status: Published
Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America
Year: 2000
Volume: 97
Issue: 6
Pages: 2952-2957
ISSN (print): 0027-8424
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Publisher: National Academy of Sciences
URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.040546597
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.040546597
PubMed id: 10688885
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