Movement detection thresholds reveal proprioceptive impairments in developmental dyslexia.

ABSTRACT: Developmental dyslexia is associated with vision and hearing impairments. Whether these impairments are causes or comorbidities is controversial. Because both senses are heavily involved in reading, cognitive theories argue that sensory impairments are comorbidities that result from a lack of reading practice. Sensory theories instead argue that this is sensory impairments that cause reading disabilities. Here we test a discriminant prediction: whether sensory impairments in developmental dyslexia are restrained to reading-related senses or encompass other senses. Sensory theories predict that all senses are affected, whereas, according to the lack of reading practice argument, cognitive theories predict that only reading-related senses are affected. Using a robotic ergometer and fully aut

SUBMITTER: Laprevotte J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7801726 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature