TY  - JOUR
A1  - Huestegge, Lynn
A1  - Rohrßen, Julia
A1  - van Ermingen-Marbach, Muna
A1  - Pape-Neumann, Julia
A1  - Heim, Stefan
T1  - Devil in the details ? Developmental dyslexia and visual long-term memory for details
JF  - Frontiers in Psychology
N2  - Cognitive theories on causes of developmental dyslexia can be divided into language-specific and general accounts. While the former assume that words are special in that associated processing problems are rooted in language-related cognition (e.g., phonology) deficits, the latter propose that dyslexia is rather rooted in a general impairment of cognitive (e.g., visual and/or auditory) processing streams. In the present study, we examined to what extent dyslexia (typically characterized by poor orthographic representations) may be associated with a general deficit in visual long-term memory (LTM) for details. We compared object- and detail-related visual LTM performance (and phonological skills) between dyslexic primary school children and IQ-, age-, and gender-matched controls. The results revealed that while the overall amount of LTM errors was comparable between groups, dyslexic children exhibited a greater portion of detail-related errors. The results suggest that not only phonological, but also general visual resolution deficits in LTM may play an important role in developmental dyslexia.
KW  - anguage and word processing
KW  - picture processing
KW  - memory errors
KW  - orthographic representations
KW  - visual resolution deficit
KW  - phonology and reading
KW  - word form area
KW  - reading disability
KW  - spatial attention
KW  - ventral stream
Y1  - 2014
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:bvb:20-opus-115887
SN  - 1664-1078
VL  - 5
IS  - 686
ER  -