Priming Effect in Picture Categorizing Process for Chinese Dyslexic Chidren / 中国临床心理学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective: To assess the difference of priming effect in visual picture categorizing task between dyslexic children and normal children.Methods: Twenty-five dyslexic children and 50 control subjects(25 matched with chronological age and 25 matched with reading level) completed a masked picture priming experiment of pictorial stimuli.On each trial,a masked prime picture was briefly displayed.The participants were required to classify target stimuli as animal or nonanimal.Priming effect and response error rate between dyslexic children and normal children was analyzed.Results: The adjusted facilitation of congruent pairs of dyslexic children was 0.061,and the two controlled groups were 0.057 and 0.064 respectively.The differences between dyslexic children and controlled groups were not significant.Conclusion: Dyslexic children do not exhibit significant deficit in general object picture's features processing.