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Pinpointing the Deficit in Executive Functions in Adolescents with Dyslexia Performing the Wisconsin Card Sorting Test: An ERP Study
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Horowitz-Kraus, Tzipi – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2014
Adolescents with dyslexia exhibit well-established impairments in executive abilities. The Wisconsin card sorting test (WCST) is an executive test that yields surprisingly inconsistent results with this population. The current study aimed to shed light on the contradictory findings in the literature regarding the performance levels by individuals…
Descriptors: Executive Function, Adolescents, Dyslexia, Cognitive Tests
Poor Performance on Serial Visual Tasks in Persons with Reading Disabilities: Impaired Working Memory?
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Ram-Tsur, Ronit; Faust, Miriam; Zivotofsky, Ari Z. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2008
The present study investigates the performance of persons with reading disabilities (PRD) on a variety of sequential visual-comparison tasks that have different working-memory requirements. In addition, mediating relationships between the sequential comparison process and attention and memory skills were looked for. Our findings suggest that PRD…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Short Term Memory, Visual Perception, Attention
Specific Reading Impairments--Are They to Be Associated with Emotional Difficulties?
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Lamm, Oren; Epstein, Rachel – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 1992
This study of the emotional status of 133 Israeli adolescents and young adults found no significant differences between subjects with dyslexia and controls. Both groups were easily differentiated from psychiatric patients. Subjects with severe deficits in ability to remember details of a text, and with concentration difficulties, exhibited high…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Anxiety, Association (Psychology), Cognitive Style