Differential Hemispheric Activation in Good and Poor Readers
- 1 January 1981
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in International Journal of Neuroscience
- Vol. 15 (1-2) , 31-36
- https://doi.org/10.3109/00207458108985843
Abstract
Good and poor readers differed on a cognitive style variable based on the differential use of 1 hemisphere over the other. While 20 good readers were equally divided (9 to 11) between right and left hemisphere activators, 17 of the 20 poor readers were right activators. The finding of no difference between the groups on a lateralized discriminative reaction time task when integrated with previous research led to the conclusion that some types of dyslexia result from a deficit in visual to auditory recoding.This publication has 21 references indexed in Scilit:
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