Joel B. Talcott|Caroline Witton|Maggie F. McLean|P. Hansen|Adrian Rees|Gary Green|John Stein
Dynamic sensory sensitivity and children's word decoding skills
relationship sensory sensitivity reading performance examined test hypothesis orthographic phonological skills engaged visual word recognition constrained ability detect dynamic visual auditory events test battery using sensory psychophysics psychometric tests measures component literacy skills administered 32 unselected 10yearold primary school children results suggest childrens sensitivity dynamic auditory visual stimuli related literacy skills importantly controlling intelligence overall reading ability visual motion sensitivity explained independent variance orthographic skill phonological ability auditory fm sensitivity covaried phonological skill orthographic skill results support hypothesis sensitivity detecting dynamic stimuli influences normal childrens reading skills vision audition separately may affect ability extract orthographic phonological information reading