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The impact of reading and writing skills on a visual-motor integration task: a comparison between illiterate and literate subjects
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Previous studies have shown a significant association between reading skills and the performance on visuo-motor
tasks. In order to clarify whether reading and writing skills modulate non-linguistic domains, we investigated the
performance of two literacy groups on a visuo-motor integration task with non-linguistic stimuli. Twenty-one
illiterate participants and twenty matched literate controls were included in the experiment. Subjects were instructed
to use the right or the left index finger to point to and touch a randomly presented target on the right or left side of a
touch screen. The results showed that the literate subjects were significantly faster in detecting and touching targets
on the left compared to the right side of the screen. In contrast, the presentation side did not affect the performance
of the illiterate group. These results lend support to the idea that having acquired reading and writing skills, and
thus a preferred left-to-right reading direction, influences visual scanning.
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Reading and writing Illiteracy Schooling Non-verbal skills Visuoperceptual skills visual scanning
Citation
Bramão, Inês; Petersson, Karl Magnus; Faísca, Luís; Ingvar, Martin; Mendonça, Alexandra; Reis, Alexandra. The impact of reading and writing skills on a visual-motor integration task: A comparison between illiterate and literate subjects, Journal of the International Neuropsychological Society, 13, 359-364, 2007.
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Cambridge University Press