@article{LCNL:90,
	author={Anne J. Sperling and Zhong-Lin Lu and Franklin R. Manis and Mark S. Seidenberg},
	year={2006},
	title={Motion perception deficits and reading impairment: It's the noise not the motion.},
	journal={Psychological Science},
	volume={17},
	pages={1047-1053},
	abstract={We tested the hypothesis that deficits on sensory processing tasks frequently associated with poor reading and dyslexia are the result of impairments in external noise exclusion, rather than motion perception or magnocellular processing. We compared the motion direction discrimination thresholds of adults and children with good or poor reading performance, using coherent motion displays embedded in external noise. Both adult and child poor readers had higher thresholds in the presence of high external noise, but did not differ from their respective peers in low external noise or when the signal was clearly demarcated. Adults' performance in high external noise correlated with general reading ability, whereas children's performance correlated with language and verbal abilities. The results support the hypothesis that noise exclusion deficits impair reading and language development, suggesting that the impact of such deficits on the development of reading skills changes with age.},
	language={English},
	URL={http://lcnl.wisc.edu/publications/archive/90.pdf},
}