Dyslexia : a visual approach / Carlo Aleci.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aleci, Carlo.

Series:

Neurodevelopmental diseases--laboratory and clinical research series.

Neurology--laboratory and clinical research development series.

Neurodevelopmental Diseases - Laboratory and Clinical Research

Neurology - Laboratory and Clinical Research Developments

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Dyslexia.

Reading disability.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (347 p.)

Place of Publication:

New York : Nova Biomedical, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Even if the ophthalmological aspects of developmental dyslexia are generally considered negligible in comparison to the cognitive and phonological ones, a growing body of evidence suggests in many patients the presence of deficiencies related to a neuronal subpopulation along the visual pathway. Still, even in the limited area of neuro-ophtalmological research, there is no general agreement on the mechanisms underlying reading impairment and on how the aetiological element determines the phenotype, that is to say the typical symptomatology. Nevertheless, the spatial and temporal vision in dysl

Contents:

""DYSLEXIA. A VISUAL APPROACH""; ""DYSLEXIA. A VISUAL APPROACH""; ""Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""Author's Note""; ""Part One. To See Is not Enough for Reading: State of the Art""; ""Chapter I: A Worldwide Problem""; ""References""; ""Chapter II: Historical Background and Morphofunctional Studies""; ""References""; ""Chapter III: Hormonal and Antigenic Factors""; ""References""; ""Chapter IV: Inheritance""; ""References""; ""Chapter V: The Revival of the Visuoperceptive Hypothesis""

""The Role of the Magno-and Parvocellular Image Processing""""References""; ""Chapter VI: Contrast Sensitivity and Dyslexia""; ""M System and Deprivational Studies on Contrast Sensitivity""; ""Contrast Sensitivity in Dyslexics""; ""References""; ""Chapter VII: Motion Perception and Dyslexia""; ""References""; ""Chapter VIII: Visual Persistence and Dyslexia""; ""References""; ""Chapter IX: The Theory of the Deficit of the Magnocellular System: Lights and Shadows""; ""References""; ""Chapter X: Eye Movements and Dyslexia""; ""Eye Movements in Dyslexic Subjects""

""Unstable Dominance and Fixation Deficit""""The Possible Involvement of the Slow Eye Movements (SEM)""; ""References""; ""Chapter XI: Visual Attention and Dyslexia""; ""Visual Attention and Reading""; ""Visual Attention Impairment in Dyslexia""; ""The Form Resolving Field (FRF)""; ""Asymmetry of Attentional Orientation""; ""Visual Attention, M System and Ocular Movements""; ""References""; ""Chapter XII: The Theory of the Deficit of the Temporal Rate Processing""; ""References""; ""Chapter XIII: Dyslexia and Crowding""; ""Asymmetry and Anisotropy of Crowding""; ""Modeling of Crowding""

""The Anatomofunctional Basis of Crowding""""Crowding and Lexical Function""; ""Crowding in Dyslexics""; ""Investigation on Lateral Masking in Dyslexics with Compensatory Approaches""; ""Effect of Visual Training on Crowding""; ""References""; ""Chapter XIV: One or More Dyslexias?""; ""References""; ""Chapter XV: Visual Rehabilitation: State of the Art and Controversies""; ""Functional Therapies: Monocular Occlusion""; ""Visual Training of the Eye Movements""; ""Visuoperceptive Training""; ""Pharmacological Therapy""; ""Compensatory Strategies""; ""Conclusion""; ""References""

""Part Two. Reading with their Eyes: A Phenomenological Approach""""Chapter XVI: Prelude to the Perceptive Shrinking""; ""References""; ""Chapter XVII: Spatial Relationship Perception and the Eidomorphometry""; ""References""; ""Chapter XVIII: Spatial Relationship Perception in Dyslexia""; ""References""; ""Chapter XIX: Does Vertical Anisotropy Lead to a Perceptive Distortion of the Characters?""; ""Font Decoding""; ""References""; ""Chapter XX: Dialectical Suggestions""; ""Anisotropy and Contrast Sensitivity""; ""Anisotropy and Motion Perception""; ""Anisotropy and Visual Attention""

""Anisotropy and Oculomotility""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from title page (ebrary, viewed September 12, 2013).

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

ISBN:

1-62618-790-8

OCLC:

864791681