Proc Biol Sci. 1995 Jan 23;259(1354):43-7.

Time estimation deficits in developmental dyslexia: evidence of cerebellar involvement.

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Department of Psychology, University of Sheffield, U.K.

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In addition to their language-related difficulties, dyslexic children suffer problems in motor skill, balance, automatization and speeded performance. Given the recent evidence for cerebellar involvement in the acquisition of language fluency, these problems suggest cerebellar deficit. To test the hypothesis of cerebellar dysfunction in dyslexia, a time estimation task considered to be a sensitive index of cerebellar function was administered to matched groups of dyslexic and control children. The dyslexic children showed the predicted deficit on time estimation (among the most severe obtained in our research programme) but not on a control, loudness estimation, task. Cerebellar dysfunction, therefore, provides a parsimonious account of otherwise disparate data on deficits in dyslexia.

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