Immaturity of the oculomotor saccade and vergence interaction in dyslexic children: Evidence from a reading and visual search study

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Studies comparing binocular eye movements during reading and visual search in dyslexic children are, at our knowledge, inexistent. In the present study we examined ocular motor characteristics in dyslexic children versus two groups of non dyslexic children with chronological/reading age-matched. Binocular eye movements were recorded by an infrared system (mobileEBT®, e(ye)BRAIN) in twelve dyslexic children (mean age 11 years old) and a group of chronological age-matched (N = 9) and reading age-matched (N = 10) non dyslexic children. Two visual tasks were used: text reading and visual search. Independently of the task, the ocular motor behavior in dyslexic children is similar to those reported in reading age-matched non dyslexic children: many and longer fixations as well as poor quality of binocular coordination during and after the saccades. In contrast, chronological age-matched non dyslexic children showed a small number of fixations and short duration of fixations in reading task with respect to visual search task; furthermore their saccades were well yoked in both tasks. The atypical eye movement's patterns observed in dyslexic children suggest a deficiency in the visual attentional processing as well as an immaturity of the ocular motor saccade and vergence systems interaction. © 2012 Bucci et al.

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Bucci, M. P., Nassibi, N., Gerard, C. L., Bui-Quoc, E., & Seassau, M. (2012). Immaturity of the oculomotor saccade and vergence interaction in dyslexic children: Evidence from a reading and visual search study. PLoS ONE, 7(3). https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0033458

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