Research Catalog

Title

Visual processes in reading and reading disabilities / edited by Dale M. Willows, Richard S. Kruk, Evelyne Corcos.

Publication

Hillsdale, N.J. : Lawrence Earlbaum Associates, 1993.

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Additional Authors

• Willows, Dale M.
• Corcos, Evelyne.
• Kruk, Richard S.

Description

xxiii, 506 pages : illustrations; 24 cm

Subjects

• Reading, Psychology of
• Reading disability
• Visual perception

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

• Introduction / Keith E. Stanovich -- 1. History of Interest in the Visual Component of Reading / Richard L. Venezky -- 2. The Relation of Reversal Errors to Reading Disabilities / Dale M. Willows and Megan Terepocki -- 3. Orton Revisited: Dyslexia, Laterality, and Left-Right Confusion / Michael C. Corballis and Ivan L. Beale -- 4. Neurological Basis of Visual Processes in Reading / Stephen Lehmkuhle -- 5. Sustained (P) and Transient (M) Channels in Vision: A Review and Implications for Reading / Bruno G. Breitmeyer -- 6. Visual Aspects of Neglect Dyslexia / M. Jane Riddoch and Glyn W. Humphreys -- 7. Visual Information Processing in Reading / Dominic W. Massaro and Thomas Sanocki -- 8. The Processing of Orthographic Information / Evelyne Corcos and Dale M. Willows -- 9. Eye Movements in Reading / Alexander Pollatsek -- 10. Eye Movement Control and Visual Display Units / Alan Kennedy -- 11. Bi-Alphabetism and the Design of a Reading Mechanism / Laurie Beth Feldman.
• 12. Are There Differences Between Disabled and Normal Readers in Their Processing of Visual Information? / Dale M. Willows, Richard S. Kruk and Evelyne Corcos -- 13. Evidence for a Visual-Processing-Deficit Subtype Among Disabled Readers / Catherine Watson and Dale M. Willows -- 14. Visual Temporal Processing Deficits in Specific Reading Disability / William J. Lovegrove and Mary C. Williams -- 15. Visuospatial Perception in Disabled Readers / John F. Stein -- 16. The Visual (Orthographic) Processor and Developmental Dyslexia / Philip H. K. Seymour and Henryka M. Evans -- 17. Disabled and Normal Readers' Eye Movements in Reading and Nonreading Tasks / Richard K. Olson and Helen Forsberg -- 18. Artists as Dyslexics / P. G. Aaron and Jean-Claude Guillemard -- 19. Optometric Factors in Reading Disability / Ralph P. Garzia -- 20. Reading and Visual Discomfort / Arnold Wilkins -- 21. Processing Text on Monitors / Richard S. Kruk.
• 22. Visual Processes in Reading: Directions for Research and Theory / Keith Rayner.

ISBN

• 0805809007
• 0805813322 (pbk.)

LCCN

93026065

OCLC

ocm28504893

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries