Table 1.
In-scanner behaviour
| Chinese |
English |
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|---|---|---|---|---|
| Normal | Dyslexic | Normal | Dyslexic | |
| Raw data | ||||
| Accuracy (%) | ||||
| Word match | 92.4 (6.7) | 89.1 (3.3) | 88.6 (5.7) | 86.5 (3.8) |
| Picture match | 83.6 (9.5) | 84.8 (8.9) | 88.3 (4.7) | 90.5 (5.3) |
| Same letters | 99.2 (2.1) | 99.2 (2.2) | 97.5 (4.4) | 98.4 (3.9) |
| Same picture | 98.5 (2.8) | 100.0 (0.0) | 98.8 (4.0) | 99.1 (3.0) |
| Response times (ms) | ||||
| Word match | 1874 (273) | 2137 (209) | 1912 (263) | 2369 (236) |
| Picture match | 2195 (201) | 2266 (213) | 1797 (252) | 2034 (242) |
| Same letters | 1354 (225) | 1518 (234) | 1158 (145) | 1383 (179) |
| Same picture | 1164 (270) | 1329 (243) | 1197 (228) | 1412 (271) |
| The effect of dyslexia |
Chinese versus English |
Interaction |
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| F(1,33) | P-value | F(1,33) | P-value | F(1,33) | P-value | |
| Statistics | ||||||
| Word match | 19.4 | 0.000 | 2.7 | 1.4 | 0.108 | 0.245 |
| Picture match | 4.0 | 0.053 | 16.9 | 0.000 | 1.2 | 0.289 |
| Same letters | 9.1 | 0.005 | 6.6 | 0.015 | 0.22 | 0.639 |
| Same picture | 5.0 | 0.032 | 0.47 | 0.50 | 0.09 | 0.769 |
Mean accuracy in percentages, response times in milliseconds and statistics for group differences for each semantic and perceptual matching task. Standard deviation is given in brackets.