Visual, Auditory and Cross Modal Lexical Decision: A Comparison between Dyslexic and Typical Readers - Psychology

PSYCH > Vol.5 No.16, October 2014

Visual, Auditory and Cross Modal Lexical Decision: A Comparison between Dyslexic and Typical Readers ()

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DOI: 10.4236/psych.2014.516191 3,015 Downloads 4,429 Views Citations

Author(s)

Shelley Shaul^*

Affiliation(s)

Edmond J. Safra Brain Research Center for the Study of Learning Disabilities, Department of Learning Disabilites, Faculty of Education, University of Haifa, Haifa, Israel.

ABSTRACT

This study examined the differences in processing between typical and dyslexic readers in a lexical decision task in different modalities (visual, auditory, and cross modality). In general, dyslexics exhibited slower reaction times and made more mistakes when performing the task. The biggest gap between the two groups of readers was found on the visual task. However, the dyslexics benefited from the cross modality presentation, with differences between the two groups minimized. The results of this study indicate that the slowness characteristic of dyslexics’ stems mainly from slow processing of visual linguistic information and that supporting both processing systems relevant to reading will assist inter-sensory integration and may ease the word decoding process among dyslexics.

KEYWORDS

Dyslexia, Lexical Decision, Visual, Auditory, Cross Modality

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Shaul, S. (2014). Visual, Auditory and Cross Modal Lexical Decision: A Comparison between Dyslexic and Typical Readers. Psychology, 5, 1855-1869. doi: 10.4236/psych.2014.516191.

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