2011 Fiscal Year Final Research Report
An eye-movement study on visual information processing by children with developmental disorders
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22730503
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Research Field |
Educational psychology
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| Research Institution | Tokyo Gakugei University |
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Principal Investigator |
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| Project Period (FY) |
2010 – 2011
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| Keywords | 発達障害 / 読み書き / 眼球運動 / 特別支援教育 |
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| Research Abstract |
This study explored characteristics of visual information processing by children with developmental disorders, in particular those with developmental dyslexia, using eye-movement analysis. Three findings were obtained. First, children with developmental dyslexia showed a biased fixation pattern during Kanji reading. Specifically, they often gazed at upper-left area for every Kanji characters. Second, both effective visual field and visual attention span of dyslexic children were smaller than those of normal children. Third, dyslexic adolescents showed problems with eye movement, for example, repeated re-reading of each word, in reading of comprehension passages in the National Center Test.
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