The Plasticity of Visual-Spatial Information Processing in Chinese Children with Developmental Dyslexia:Evidence from a Mental Rotation Experiment
Visual-spatial information processing is essential for reading proficiency.This study selected second-grade(reading initiation stage)and fifth-grade(reading application stage)children with developmental dyslexia to examine differences in their visual-spatial information processing abilities through a mental rotation experiment.The experiment involved both"real character"and"non-character"mental rotation tasks.The results indicated that fifth-grade children with dyslexia significantly outperformed second-grade children in the"real character"task,while no significant differences were found in the"non-character"task.These findings suggest that educational interventions and learning experiences are more effective than physiological maturation in improving the visual-spatial information processing abilities of children with developmental dyslexia,therefore,early intervention for children with developmental dyslexia is effective.
Chinese developmental dyslexiavisual-spatial information processingmental rotation