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According to a new study, children who suffer from dyslexia go through visual issues as well along with dealing with reading disabilities.The readings were published in the 'JNeurosci Journal'.It was the first to combine new methods to understand visual processing and brain activity in dyslexia, challenged a group of children aged six to 14 to identify the average direction of motion of a mass of moving dots, while their brain activity was measured.It was found that children with dyslexia took longer to gather the visual evidence, and were less accurate, than their typically developing peers, and that the behavioural differences were reflected in the differences in brain activity.Although reading ability is known to be affected by dyslexia, researchers are still unclear on which brain processes are affected by the condition. Increased understanding of this could potentially lead to more effective support for those affected.Dr Cathy Manning, lead researcher in the Centre for Autism at the University of Reading, said, "These findings show that the difficulties faced by children with dyslexia are not restricted to reading and writing. Instead, as a group, children with dyslexia also show differences in how they process visual information and make decisions about it.""Future research will be needed to see if these differences in visual processing and decision-making can be trained in order to improve reading ability in affected children, or provide clues as to the causes of dyslexia," Cathy addedBrain activity monitoring using EEG in the study showed synchronized activity over the centro-parietal regions of the brain involved in decision-making steadily increased in all of the children during the task until they made a decision. However, this happened more gradually in the children with dyslexia.The study supported a link between motion processing and dyslexia, although the causes are not yet known.Whether dyslexia is, at its core, a visual processing disorder is hotly debated among researchers. With reading and writing a key challenge among children with dyslexia, increasing understanding of its effects on the brain might aid how we improve existing interventions.( With inputs from ANI )Disclaimer: This post has been auto-published from an agency feed without any modifications to the text and has not been reviewed by an editor

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