Attentional engagement deficits in dyslexic children

▶ Reading acquisition requires attentional selection of sublexical orthographic units. ▶ Spatio-temporal deficits of attentional engagement were found in dyslexics. ▶ Spatio-temporal deficits were found only in dyslexics with poor phonological decoding. ▶ A relationship between spatio-temporal attention and phonological decoding was found. ▶ Spatio-temporal attentional deficits are linked to a parietal lobule dysfunction.