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Helland, Turid; Asbjornsen, Arve E.; Hushovd, Aud Ellen; Hugdahl, Kenneth – Dyslexia, 2008
This study focused on the relationship between school performance and performance on a dichotic listening (DL) task in dyslexic children. Dyslexia is associated with impaired phonological processing, related to functions in the left temporal lobe. DL is a frequently used task to assess functions of the left temporal lobe. Due to the predominance…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Dyslexia, Program Effectiveness, Human Body
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Griffiths, Catherine C. B. – Dyslexia, 2007
This study examines well-compensated adults with dyslexia to see if they experience more problems with pragmatic awareness than the normal population. Social interaction requires an individual to process language at speed by using working memory efficiently, in order to understand the intended, rather than literal, meaning between speaker and…
Descriptors: Dyslexia, Screening Tests, Interpersonal Relationship, Language Processing
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Rispens, Judith E.; Been, Pieter H.; Zwarts, Frans – Dyslexia, 2006
This study investigates the presence and latency of the P600 component in response to subject-verb agreement violations in spoken language in people with and without developmental dyslexia. The two groups performed at-ceiling level on judging the sentences on their grammaticality, but the ERP data revealed subtle differences between them. The P600…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Sentences, Speech, Verbs