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Dynamic sensory sensitivity and children's word decoding skills

Lookup NU author(s): Professor Adrian ReesORCiD, Dr Gary Green

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Abstract

The relationship between sensory sensitivity and reading performance was examined to test the hypothesis that the orthographic and phonological skills engaged in visual word recognition are constrained by the ability to detect dynamic visual and auditory events. A test battery using sensory psychophysics, psychometric tests, and measures of component literacy skills was administered to 32 unselected 10-year-old primary school children. The results suggest that children's sensitivity to both dynamic auditory and visual stimuli are related to their literacy skills. Importantly, after controlling for intelligence and overall reading ability, visual motion sensitivity explained independent variance in orthographic skill but not phonological ability, and auditory FM sensitivity covaried with phonological skill but not orthographic skill. These results support the hypothesis that sensitivity at detecting dynamic stimuli influences normal children's reading skills. Vision and audition separately may affect the ability to extract orthographic and phonological information during reading.


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Author(s): Rees A; Green GGR; Talcott JB; Witton C; McLean MF; Hansen PC; Stein JF

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Year: 2000

Volume: 97

Issue: 6

Pages: 2952-2957

ISSN (print): 0027-8424

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Publisher: National Academy of Sciences

URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1073/pnas.040546597

DOI: 10.1073/pnas.040546597

PubMed id: 10688885


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