Vanessa Harrar|Jonathan Tammam|Alexis Pérez-Bellido|Anna Pitt|John Stein|Charles Spence
Multisensory Integration and Attention in Developmental Dyslexia
University of Oxford|University of Oxford|Universitat de Barcelona|University of Oxford|University of Oxford|University of Oxford
developmental dyslexia affects 510 population resulting poor spelling reading skills welldocumented differences way dyslexics process lowlevel visual auditory stimuli mostly unknown whether similar differences audiovisual multisensory processes investigated audiovisual integration using redundant target effect rte paradigm conditions demonstrating audiovisual integration appear depend upon magnocellular pathways dyslexia associated deficits pathway postulated developmental dyslexics dyslexics hereafter would show differences audiovisual integration compared controls reaction times rts multisensory stimuli compared predictions millers race model dyslexics showed difficulty shifting attention modalities sluggish attention shifting sas appeared dyslexics shifted attention visual auditory modality results suggest dyslexics distribute crossmodal attention resources differently controls causing different patterns multisensory responses compared controls propose dyslexia training programs take account asymmetric shifts crossmodal attention