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Frontal lobe functions in reading: Evidence from dyslexic children performing nonreading saccade tasks

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 March 2004

Burkhart Fischer
Burkhart Fischer*
Affiliation:
Brain Research Unit, University of Freiburg, D-79104Freiburg, Germanywww.brain.uni-freiburg.de/fischer
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Abstract:

Reichle et al. show that saccades in reading are controlled by linguistic processing. The authors' Figure 13 shows the parietal and frontal eye fields as parts of a neural implementation. This commentary presents data from dyslexics performing nonreading saccade tasks. The dyslexics exhibit deficits in antisaccade control. Improvement of the deficits is achieved in 85% of the cases and results in advantages in learning how to read.

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Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 26 , Issue 4 , August 2003 , pp. 484 - 486
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2003

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