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Liu, Duo; Chen, Xi; Chung, Kevin K. H. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2015
This study examined the relation between the performance in a visual search task and reading ability in 92 third-grade Hong Kong Chinese children. The visual search task, which is considered a measure of visual-spatial attention, accounted for unique variance in Chinese character reading after controlling for age, nonverbal intelligence,…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Grade 3, Elementary School Students, Visual Perception
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Benassi, Mariagrazia; Simonelli, Letizia; Giovagnoli, Sara; Bolzani, Roberto – Dyslexia, 2010
The magnitude of the association between developmental dyslexia (DD) and motion sensitivity is evaluated in 35 studies, which investigated coherence motion perception in DD. A first analysis is conducted on the differences between DD groups and age-matched control (C) groups. In a second analysis, the relationship between motion coherence…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Meta Analysis, Motion, Visual Perception
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Simon, A.; Ward, L. O. – Contemporary Educational Psychology, 1979
Eleven to fourteen year olds judged the size of eight angles. Subjects were grouped according to reading ability and their nonverbal intelligence was measured. Significant differences in performance were found in relation to age and ability variables, and between the angle-size ranges of 0 to 90 degrees and 90 to 180 degrees. (Author/RD)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Ability, Geometric Concepts, Intelligence Differences
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Kershner, John R. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1975
Descriptors: Age Differences, Exceptional Child Research, Learning Disabilities, Perceptual Motor Coordination