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Abbott, I., Larkin, R.F. 
ORCID: 0000-0002-8690-1111 and Dunn, A.K. ORCID: 0000-0003-3226-1734,
2015.
Spatial attention shifting and phonological processing in adults with dyslexia.
The New School Psychology Bulletin, 12 (1), pp. 10-23.
ISSN 1931-7948
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Abstract
According to Hari and Renvall’s (2001) sluggish attentional shifting (SAS) hypothesis people with dyslexia have a central deficit in attention shifting. Here we assessed whether a group of adults with dyslexia showed impaired performance on shifting visual spatial attention. Twelve adults with dyslexia and 12 control adult participants took part in a Posner style focused attention orientation task and a shift attention orientation task. The participants also completed standardized measures of single word reading, spelling, IQ, phonological processing, speed of processing and non-word reading. Overall, the dyslexic participants showed the same pattern of performance as the control participants on the attention-orienting task, but completed the tasks at a consistently slower pace. Specifically, participants in both groups found short target presentation intervals more difficult than longer target presentation intervals, and participants in both groups were more impaired when cue-to-target information was invalid 20% of the time (shift task) than when it was valid all of the time (focused task). However, the group with dyslexia was significantly more impaired across the board.
| Item Type: | Journal article |
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| Publication Title: | The New School Psychology Bulletin |
| Creators: | Abbott, I., Larkin, R.F. and Dunn, A.K. |
| Publisher: | The New School for Social Research |
| Place of Publication: | New York |
| Date: | 2015 |
| Volume: | 12 |
| Number: | 1 |
| ISSN: | 1931-7948 |
| Divisions: | Schools > School of Social Sciences |
| Record created by: | EPrints Services |
| Date Added: | 09 Oct 2015 10:14 |
| Last Modified: | 09 Jun 2017 13:23 |
| URI: | https://irep.ntu.ac.uk/id/eprint/9890 |
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