Whilst research consistently shows that dyslexic participants show performance deficits on a number of serial recall (SR) tasks there has been conflicting evidence about dyslexics' ability to perform visuo-spatial tasks; an inconsistency often attributed to differential task demands (Smith-Spark & Fisk 2007). Also, on different visuo-spatial tasks it is possible that participants use verbal enc...

Abstract Temporal synchrony is the alignment of processes in time within or across individuals social interaction and observed studied various domains using wide-ranging paradigms. Evidence suggesting reduced temporal autism (e.g. compared to neurotypicals) has hitherto not been reviewed. To systematically review magnitude generalisability difference different tasks contexts, EBSCO, OVID, Web S...

BACKGROUND Evidence indicates that social functioning deficits and sensory sensitivities in autism spectrum disorder (ASD) are related to atypical sensory integration. The exact mechanisms underlying these integration difficulties are unknown; however, two leading accounts are (1) an over-reliance on proprioception and (2) atypical visuo-tactile temporal binding. We directly tested these theori...

The neurological basis of developmental coordination disorder (DCD) is thought to be deficits in the internal model and mirror-neuron system (MNS) in the parietal lobe and cerebellum. However, it is not clear if the visuo-motor temporal integration in the internal model and automatic-imitation function in the MNS differs between children with DCD and those with typical development (TD). The cur...

Finger gnosis, the ability to mentally represent one’s fingers, predicts numeracy in children (Penner-Wilger et al., 2007, 2009) and adults (Penner-Wilger et al., 2014, 2015). It has been argued that the relation may reflect visuo-spatial memory, rather than finger gnosis ability per se. This rival hypothesis was not supported in adults (Penner-Wilger et al., 2015), but here we examined it in c...

The purpose of this fMRI study was to provide evidence for the mathematician’s belief that mathematical thinking emerges from the interplay between symbolic and visuospatial systems. Twelve participants were given algebra word problems and depicted the quantitative relations on a mental number line or made parts of an equation. The regions activated in depicting the picture were also recruited ...

Finger gnosis and magnitude comparison were examined as predictors of adult numeracy. Previous findings were extended by (1) controlling for domain-general comparison processes (using a luminance judgment task), (2) controlling for visuo-spatial memory, and (3) examining the robustness of the relations across different numeracy tests, including exact and approximate calculations. Control variab...

Dyslexia and attentional problems are often comorbid. This raises the question whether reading deficits might etiologically follow from attentional difficulties, a hypothesis that has been proposed in regard to visuo-spatial attention deficits. This visuo-spatial attention deficit hypothesis would predict that attention deficits should be specific to dyslexia. However, it is here estimated that...