Magnocellular mediated visual-spatial attention and reading ability

Kinsey, Kristofer; Rose, Marina; Hansen, Peter; Richardson, Alex; Stein, John

Abstract

This study explores the relationship between attentional processing mediated by visual magnocellular (MC) processing and reading ability. Reading ability in a group of primary school children was compared to performance on a visual cued coherent motion detection task. The results showed that a brief spatial cue was more effective in drawing attention either away or towards a visual target in the group of readers ranked in the upper 25% of the sample compared to lower ranked readers. Regression analysis showed a significant relationship between attentional processing and reading when the effects of age and intellectual ability were removed. Results suggested a stronger relationship between visual attentional and non-word reading compared to irregular word reading.

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: Jan 1, 2004
• Journal: Neuroreport
• Print ISSN: 0959-4965
• Electronic ISSN: 1473-558X
• Publisher: Lippincott, Williams & Wilkins
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 15
• Issue: 14
• Pages: 2215-2218
• Public URL: https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1065176
• Publisher URL: http://journals.lww.com/neuroreport/Abstract/2004/10050/Magnocellular_mediated_visual_spatial_attention.14.aspx