Atypical reliance on monocular visual pathway for face and word recognition in developmental dyslexia.

ABSTRACT: Studies with individuals with developmental dyslexia (DD) have documented impaired perception of words and faces, both of which are domains of visual expertise for human adults. In this study, we examined a possible mechanism that might be associated with the impaired acquisition of visual expertise for words and faces in DD, namely, the atypical engagement of the monocular visual pathway. Participants with DD and typical readers (TR) judged whether a pair of sequentially presented unfamiliar faces or nonwords were the same or different, and the pair of stimuli were displayed in an eye-specific fashion using a stereoscope. Based on evidence of greater reliance on subcortical structures early in development, we predicted differences between the groups in the engagement of lower (monocular)

SUBMITTER: Peskin N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11669367 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature