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Temporal or phonetic processing deficit in dyslexia? That is the question

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  28 November 2008

Paula Tallal*
Affiliation:
University of California, San Diego
*
Paula Tallal, Ph.D., University of California, San Diego, School of Medicine, Department of Psychiatry M-003, La Jolla, CA 92037

Abstract

Katz, Healy and Shankweiler investigated poor and good readers' performance on two order recall tasks which were differentiated by the extent to which phonetic memory strategies were employed. Contrary to their predictions, they found that poor readers were significantly impaired on both tasks. They attributed this unexpected finding to the rate at which stimuli were presented. However, results of studies that have experimentally manipulated rate of stimulus presentation in order recall tasks have demonstrated the opposite results to those predicted by these authors. The results of the present study support the hypothesis that poor readers are impaired in recalling the order of rapidly presented successive events.

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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1984

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