Back to Search
Start Over
The cerebellar deficit hypothesis and dyslexic tendencies in a non-clinical sample
The cerebellar deficit hypothesis and dyslexic tendencies in a non-clinical sample
- Source :
- Dyslexia. 11:174-185
- Publication Year :
- 2005
- Publisher :
- Wiley, 2005.
-
Abstract
- In order to assess the relationship between cerebellar deficits and dyslexic tendencies in a non-clinical sample, 27 primary school children aged 8-9 completed a cerebellar soft signs battery and were additionally assessed for reading age, sequential memory, picture arrangement and knowledge of common sequences. An average measure of the soft signs data established a single construct which we treated as our primary index of cerebellar function. Overall cerebellar function was significantly correlated with reading age, picture arrangement and knowledge of common sequences even when IQ was partialled out. Graphical representation of our data indicated a continuous rather than discrete distribution for each measure. Results are discussed in terms of the CDH and continuum approaches to dyslexia.
- Subjects :
- Male
media_common.quotation_subject
Intelligence
Statistics as Topic
Experimental and Cognitive Psychology
Neuropsychological Tests
Serial Learning
Education
Dyslexia
Correlation
Cerebellar Diseases
Reading (process)
Developmental and Educational Psychology
medicine
Humans
Child
media_common
Sequential access memory
Psychomotor learning
Intelligence quotient
Cognition
General Medicine
medicine.disease
Memory, Short-Term
Pattern Recognition, Visual
Reading
Female
Sequence learning
Psychology
Cognitive psychology
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 10990909 and 10769242
- Volume :
- 11
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Dyslexia
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9ef13a33dc29923c5aff8f5c21f4f3a5
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1002/dys.293