The international team of researchers has revealed that children with dyslexia more often process visual information. The article of scientists is published in Journal of Neuroscience.
In the course of its experiment, specialists from Australia, Great Britain, the Netherlands and the United States asked 100 children aged six to 14 years old – 50 with dyslexia and 50 without it – to determine the overall direction of moving points. During the passage of the task, each participant was made electroencephalography – to learn brain activity.
researchers found out that children with dyslexia needed more time to identify visual information, and the accuracy of their responses was less than their peers. Also differed in them and the activity of the brain. It is despite the fact that the synchronized activity of the regions of the brain of the brain increased during the task of all participants, in children with dyslexia, it happened more slowly.
“In order to find out if there can be training on improving reading skills to eliminate these differences in the processing of visual information and decision making or explain the causes of dyslexia, further research will be required,” complains one of the authors of the work, the leading researcher of the Center for Disorders Autistic spectrum of the Reding University Katie Manning. Researchers note that their work testifies to the connection of dyslexia with the process of processing information about the movement, although the reasons for this remain unclear.