{"pk":28961,"title":"Visual Spatial Attention Skills and Holistic Processing in High School StudentsWith and Without Dyslexia","subtitle":null,"abstract":"Visual-spatial attention has been shown to influence literacy development, yet studies investigating its influence on readingin non-alphabetic scripts such as Chinese are scarce, despite recent studies demonstrating orthographic and visuo-spatialskills to be key deficits in people with dyslexia in Chinese. Here, we investigate visual-spatial processing skills in Chi-nese adolescents by measuring their 1) exogenous and endogenous attentional orienting, and 2) holistic processinga phe-nomenon typically demonstrated in face perceptionin Chinese character recognition. Compared with typically developingstudents, Chinese high-school students with dyslexia showed deficits in both endogenous and exogenous visual-spatialattention. Dyslexics also perceived characters more holistically than the controls, suggesting that they selectively attendedto individual components within Chinese characters less readily. These results demonstrated irregularities in visual-spatialprocessing skills in students in dyslexia. This study provides implications for reading intervention programs in order tofacilitate selective attention to character components to enhance literacy.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[],"section":"Poster Presentations with Abstracts","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/2tt186qd","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Ronald","middle_name":"","last_name":"Chan","name_suffix":"","institution":"The Education University of Hong Kong","department":""},{"first_name":"Chin-wai","middle_name":"","last_name":"Kwok","name_suffix":"","institution":"The Education University of Hong Kong","department":""},{"first_name":"Duo","middle_name":"","last_name":"Liu","name_suffix":"","institution":"The Education University of Hong Kong","department":""},{"first_name":"Ricky","middle_name":"Van-yip","last_name":"Tso","name_suffix":"","institution":"The Education University of Hong Kong","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2019-01-01T18:00:00Z","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/28961/galley/18832/download/"}]}