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Direct linkSerniclaes, Willy; Ventura, Paulo; Morais, Jose; Kolinsky, Regine – Cognition, 2005
Children affected by dyslexia exhibit a deficit in the categorical perception of speech sounds, characterized by both poorer discrimination of between-category differences and by better discrimination of within-category differences, compared to normal readers. These categorical perception anomalies might be at the origin of dyslexia, by hampering…
Descriptors: Written Language, Reading Skills, Illiteracy, Dyslexia
