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Left Visual Field Bias during Face Perception Aligns with Individual Differences in Reading Skills and Is Absent in Dyslexia
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Jakob Åsberg Johnels; Martyna A. Galazka; Maria Sundqvist; Nouchine Hadjikhani – British Journal of Educational Psychology, 2025
Background: When looking at faces, we tend to attend more to the left visual field (corresponding to the right side of the person's face). This phenomenon is called the left visual field bias (LVF) and is presumed to reflect the brain's right-sided dominance for face processing. Whether alterations in hemispheric dominance are present in dyslexia,…
Descriptors: Visual Perception, Individual Differences, Reading Skills, Dyslexia