BACKGROUND While poor reading is often associated with phonological deficits, many studies suggest that visual processing might also be impaired. In particular, recent research has indicated that poor readers show impaired spatial visual attention spans in partial and whole report tasks. Given the similarities between competition-based accounts for reduced visual attention span and similar expl...

The P300 ERP component was studied in poor and normal readers, using Sternberg and color discrimination (Spaceships) tasks. During the first one, subjects must decide if a probe item belongs or not to a set of digits previously presented. In the second one, the participants must shoot violet spaceships with one key and other than violet spaceships with another key. There were no significant dif...