PubMed · 14084265
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M M SHELTON. 1963. SPECIFIC LANGUAGE DISABILITY.. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/14084265/
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Numerous studies have found visual deficits associated with dyslexia. This has made it important to understand how these deficits may be related to reading difficulties. A widely held theory is that dyslexia is the result of a deficit in the magnocellular part of the visual system (earlier called the transient system). In support for this theory, the prevalence of magnocellular deficits has been reported to be high among dyslexic readers and very low among non-dyslexic ones. This creates the impression that in the population as a whole dyslexic individuals have magnocellular deficits and non-dyslexic individuals do not. However, we show that because the prevalence of dyslexia itself is low this need not be the case. On the basis of previously published data we have estimated the number of non-dyslexic and dyslexic individuals with magnocellular deficits. Our estimates indicate that there should be a large number of non-dyslexic individuals with magnocellular deficits. Paradoxically more individuals without dyslexia have magnocellular deficits than individuals with dyslexia. This poses a challenge to the view that dyslexia is the result of a magnocellular deficit.
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