Cortex
Volume 46, Issue 2 , Pages 231-241 , February 2010

A case study of developmental phonological dyslexia: Is the attentional deficit in the perception of rapid stimuli sequences amodal?

  • Marie Lallier

      Affiliations

    • Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition (UMR 5105 CNRS), Université Pierre Mendès France, Grenoble, France
    • Université Pierre Mendès-France, Grenoble, France
    • Corresponding Author InformationCorresponding author. Laboratoire de Psychologie et Neuro-Cognition (UMR5105 CNRS), Université Pierre Mendès France, 1251 Avenue Centrale BP 47, 38040 Grenoble Cedex 9, France.
    • ,
  • Sophie Donnadieu

      Affiliations

    • Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition (UMR 5105 CNRS), Université Pierre Mendès France, Grenoble, France
    • Université de Savoie, Chambéry, France
    • ,
  • Carole Berger

      Affiliations

    • Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition (UMR 5105 CNRS), Université Pierre Mendès France, Grenoble, France
    • Université de Savoie, Chambéry, France
    • ,
  • Sylviane Valdois

      Affiliations

    • Laboratoire de Psychologie et NeuroCognition (UMR 5105 CNRS), Université Pierre Mendès France, Grenoble, France
    • Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
    • Université Pierre Mendès-France, Grenoble, France

Received 6 May 2008 ,Revised 29 December 2008 ,Accepted 26 March 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.03.014

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