Impaired Letter-String Processing in Developmental Dyslexia: What Visual-to-Phonology Code Mapping Disorder?

Poor parallel letter-string processing in developmental dyslexia was taken as evidence of poor visual attention (VA) span, that is, a limitation of visual attentional resources that affects multi-character processing. However, the use of letter stimuli in oral report tasks was challenged on its capa...

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Publicado en:Dyslexia (10769242) Vol. 18; no. 2; pp. 77 - 94
Autores principales: Valdois S, Lassus-Sangosse D, Lobier M
Formato: research Journal Article
Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell May2012
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          Valdois S
          Lassus-Sangosse D
          Lobier M
        affil: Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition (UMR CNRS 5105), Grenoble, France; Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Grenoble, France; Université Pierre Mendès-France (UPMF), Grenoble, France. Sylviane.Valdois@upmf-grenoble.fr.
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          Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Etiology
          Dyslexia Complications
          Phonetics
          Reading
          Visual Perception Physiology
          Adolescence
          Analysis of Variance
          Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder Diagnosis
          Case Control Studies
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          Child, Preschool
          Color Perception
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          Neuropsychological Tests
          Visual Perception
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          Adolescent: 13-18 years
          Child: 6-12 years
          Child, Preschool: 2-5 years
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      ab: Poor parallel letter-string processing in developmental dyslexia was taken as evidence of poor visual attention (VA) span, that is, a limitation of visual attentional resources that affects multi-character processing. However, the use of letter stimuli in oral report tasks was challenged on its capacity to highlight a VA span disorder. In particular, report of poor letter/digit-string processing but preserved symbol-string processing was viewed as evidence of poor visual-to-phonology code mapping, in line with the phonological theory of developmental dyslexia. We assessed here the visual-to-phonological-code mapping disorder hypothesis. In Experiment 1, letter-string, digit-string and colour-string processing was assessed to disentangle a phonological versus visual familiarity account of the letter/digit versus symbol dissociation. Against a visual-to-phonological-code mapping disorder but in support of a familiarity account, results showed poor letter/digit-string processing but preserved colour-string processing in dyslexic children. In Experiment 2, two tasks of letter-string report were used, one of which was performed simultaneously to a high-taxing phonological task. Results show that dyslexic children are similarly impaired in letter-string report whether a concurrent phonological task is simultaneously performed or not. Taken together, these results provide strong evidence against a phonological account of poor letter-string processing in developmental dyslexia. Copyright © 2012 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. KEY MESSAGES: Poor letter/digit-string processing in dyslexia can follow from either a phonological or a visual attention span disorder. The dissociation between letter/digit versus symbol-string processing was viewed as supporting the phonological account. Using three nameable stimuli types, Experiment 1 shows poor letter/digit-string processing but preserved colour-string processing in developmental dyslexia. Experiment 2 shows that the dyslexic's low performance in letter-string processing is not affected by a concurrent phonological task. These findings speak against a phonological interpretation of the disorder. The observed dissociation may well reflect a visual familiarity effect.
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