Evidence from opaque languages suggests that visual attention processing abilities in addition to phonological skills may act as cognitive underpinnings of developmental dyslexia. We explored the role of these two cognitive abilities on reading fluency in Brazilian Portuguese, a more transparent orthography than French or English. Sixty-six children with developmental dyslexia and normal Brazil...

This paper describes the development of a psychological student model based on the visual and verbal skills of learners. These skills are important factors of the learners’ mental models that are employed when interacting with complex computer applications, such as the ones involved in E-Learning 2.0. In order to develop such a student model, it was important to identify a range of verbal and v...

Visual feedback in general, and from the body in particular, is known to influence the performance of motor skills in humans. However, it is unclear how the acquisition of motor skills depends on specific visual feedback parameters such as the size of performing effector. Here, 21 healthy subjects physically trained to perform sequences of finger movements with their right hand. Through the use...

A review of research examining the relationship of auditory-visual integration and reading achievement is presented. The techniques of meta-analysis were used to integrate statistically the findings from 31 studies. A total of 146 correlations were collected and aggregated across assessment procedures, reading skills, grade levels, and subject characteristics. Also, partial correlations and a s...

BACKGROUND AND PURPOSE Communication with patients is a core clinical skill in medicine that can be acquired through communication skills training. Meanwhile, the importance of transfer of communication skills to the workplace has not been sufficiently studied. This study aims to assess the efficacy of a 40-hour training program designed to improve patients' satisfaction and residents' communic...

The goal of this paper is to determine the effect of length of cochlear implant (CI) use and other factors on the development of sustained visual attention in prelingually deaf children, and to investigate the relations between sustained visual attention and audiological outcomes with an implant. It includes retrospective analysis of data collected before cochlear implantation and over several ...

PURPOSE In an investigation of the functional impact of amblyopia in children, the fine motor skills of amblyopes and age-matched control subjects were compared. The influence of visual factors that might predict any decrement in fine motor skills was also explored. METHODS Vision and fine motor skills were tested in a group of children (n = 82; mean age, 8.2 +/- 1.7 [SD] years) with amblyopi...

The purpose of this study was to determine whether students with strong spatialvisual skills tend to design more complex mechanisms for the undergraduate course Design and Manufacturing I. The Purdue Spatial Visualization Test was administered to 137 students enrolled in the course. Test scores were compared to student self-evaluations of experience with tasks associated with spatial reasoning ...