Reading Performance Is Enhanced by Visual Texture Discrimination   Training in Chinese-Speaking Children with Developmental Dyslexia

doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0108274

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	Reading Performance Is Enhanced by Visual Texture Discrimination Training in Chinese-Speaking Children with Developmental Dyslexia
	Meng, Xiangzhi ; Lin, Ou ; Wang, Fang ; Jiang, Yuzheng ; Song, Yan
刊名	plos one
	2014
关键词	SPATIAL ATTENTION NEURAL DEFICITS INTERVENTION SEGMENTATION DIFFICULTIES DISABILITIES RECOGNITION ACQUISITION FLUENCY READERS
DOI	10.1371/journal.pone.0108274
英文摘要	Background: High order cognitive processing and learning, such as reading, interact with lower-level sensory processing and learning. Previous studies have reported that visual perceptual training enlarges visual span and, consequently, improves reading speed in young and old people with amblyopia. Recently, a visual perceptual training study in Chinese-speaking children with dyslexia found that the visual texture discrimination thresholds of these children in visual perceptual training significantly correlated with their performance in Chinese character recognition, suggesting that deficits in visual perceptual processing/learning might partly underpin the difficulty in reading Chinese. Methodology/Principal Findings: To further clarify whether visual perceptual training improves the measures of reading performance, eighteen children with dyslexia and eighteen typically developed readers that were age-and IQ-matched completed a series of reading measures before and after visual texture discrimination task (TDT) training. Prior to the TDT training, each group of children was split into two equivalent training and non-training groups in terms of all reading measures, IQ, and TDT. The results revealed that the discrimination threshold SOAs of TDT were significantly higher for the children with dyslexia than for the control children before training. Interestingly, training significantly decreased the discrimination threshold SOAs of TDT for both the typically developed readers and the children with dyslexia. More importantly, the training group with dyslexia exhibited significant enhancement in reading fluency, while the non-training group with dyslexia did not show this improvement. Additional follow-up tests showed that the improvement in reading fluency is a long-lasting effect and could be maintained for up to two months in the training group with dyslexia. Conclusion/Significance: These results suggest that basic visual perceptual processing/learning and reading ability in Chinese might at least partially rely on overlapping mechanisms.; http://gateway.webofknowledge.com/gateway/Gateway.cgi?GWVersion=2&SrcApp=PARTNER_APP&SrcAuth=LinksAMR&KeyUT=WOS:000342351800077&DestLinkType=FullRecord&DestApp=ALL_WOS&UsrCustomerID=8e1609b174ce4e31116a60747a720701 ; Multidisciplinary Sciences; SCI(E); PubMed; SSCI; 6; ARTICLE; songyan@bnu.edu.cn; 9; e108274; 9
语种	英语
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.pku.edu.cn/handle/20.500.11897/162736]
专题	心理与认知科学学院
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Meng, Xiangzhi,Lin, Ou,Wang, Fang,et al. Reading Performance Is Enhanced by Visual Texture Discrimination Training in Chinese-Speaking Children with Developmental Dyslexia[J]. plos one,2014.
APA	Meng, Xiangzhi,Lin, Ou,Wang, Fang,Jiang, Yuzheng,&Song, Yan.(2014).Reading Performance Is Enhanced by Visual Texture Discrimination Training in Chinese-Speaking Children with Developmental Dyslexia.plos one.
MLA	Meng, Xiangzhi,et al."Reading Performance Is Enhanced by Visual Texture Discrimination Training in Chinese-Speaking Children with Developmental Dyslexia".plos one (2014).