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Direct linkPammer, Kristen; Lavis, Ruth; Hansen, Peter; Cornelissen, Piers L. – Brain and Language, 2004
In this study of primary school children, a novel "symbol-string" task is used to assess sensitivity to the position of briefly presented non-alphabetic but letter-like symbols. The results demonstrate that sensitivity in the symbol-string task explains a unique proportion of the variability in children's contextual reading accuracy. Moreover,…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Reading Difficulties, Word Recognition, Spatial Ability
