Cortex
Volume 46, Issue 8 , Pages 982-1004 , September 2010

Is the visual analyzer orthographic-specific? Reading words and numbers in letter position dyslexia

Received 7 July 2008 ,Revised 9 August 2009 ,Accepted 13 August 2009.

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doi: 10.1016/j.cortex.2009.08.007

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