Meta‐analytic findings reveal lower means but higher variances in visuospatial ability in dyslexia.

Conflicting empirical and theoretical accounts suggest that dyslexia is associated with either average, enhanced, or impoverished high‐level visuospatial processing relative to controls. Such heterogeneous results could be due to the presence of wider variability in dyslexic samples, which is unlike...

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Publicado en:British Journal of Psychology Vol. 109; no. 4; pp. 897 - 917
Autores principales: Chamberlain, Rebecca, Brunswick, Nicola, Siev, Joseph, McManus, I. C.
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Publicado: Wiley-Blackwell Nov2018
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          Chamberlain, Rebecca
          Brunswick, Nicola
          Siev, Joseph
          McManus, I. C.
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          Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK
          Department of Psychology, Middlesex University, London, UK
          Department of Psychology, Brooklyn College, City University of New York, USA
          Department of Psychology, University College London, UK
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        Mental illness treatment
        Attention
        Memory
        Task performance
        Therapeutics
        Dyslexia
        Meta-analysis
        Space perception
        Visual perception
        Systematic reviews
        Effect sizes (Statistics)
        Descriptive statistics
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          Mental illness treatment
          Attention
          Memory
          Task performance
          Therapeutics
          Dyslexia
          Meta-analysis
          Space perception
          Visual perception
          Systematic reviews
          Effect sizes (Statistics)
          Descriptive statistics
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        dyslexia
        meta‐analysis of variance
        visuospatial ability
        dyslexia
        meta‐analysis of variance
        visuospatial ability
      ab: Conflicting empirical and theoretical accounts suggest that dyslexia is associated with either average, enhanced, or impoverished high‐level visuospatial processing relative to controls. Such heterogeneous results could be due to the presence of wider variability in dyslexic samples, which is unlikely to be identified at the single study level, due to lack of power. To address this, this study reports a meta‐analysis of means and variances in high‐level visuospatial ability in 909 non‐dyslexic and 956 dyslexic individuals. The findings suggest that dyslexia is associated not only with a lower mean performance on visuospatial tasks but also with greater variability in performance. Through novel meta‐analytic techniques, we demonstrate a negative effect size for mean differences (−.457), but a positive effect size for SD differences (+.118; SD ratio = 1.107). In doing so, this is the first study to demonstrate impoverished visuospatial processing of the majority of individuals with dyslexia in addition to greater variance in performance in this group. The findings advocate for further consideration of both the presence of, and reasons for, increased variance in perception, attention, and memory across neurodevelopmental disorders.
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