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AUTHOR
Pablo Gómez
Un pequeño aumento en el espaciado entre letras favorece la lectura en niños disléxicos
Varias investigaciones recientes han mostrado que un ligero aumento del espaciado entre las letras (respecto al espaciado estándar) produce tiempos de lectura más rápidos en los niños con dislexia, así como mejoras en la comprensión de los textos. Si bien el aumento en el espaciado de las letras no “cura” la dislexia, sí permite una mejora en el proceso de lectura. Es importante remarcar que la posibilidad de modificar el espaciado entre letras se encuentra disponible en los programas de procesamiento de texto. Creemos que dicha opción debería estar disponible próximamente en los libros electrónicos.
Which Factors Modulate Letter Position Coding in Pre-literate Children?
One of the central landmarks of learning to read is the emergence of orthographic processing (i.e., the encoding of letter identity and letter order): it constitutes the necessary link between the low-level stages of visual processing and the higher-level processing of words. Regarding the processing of letter position, many experiments have shown worse performance in various tasks for the transposed-letter pair judge-JUDGE than for the orthographic control jupte-JUDGE. Importantly, 4-y.o. pre-literate children also show letter transposition effects in a same-different task: TZ-ZT is more error-prone than TZ-PH. Here, we examined whether this effect with pre-literate children is related to …
Evolution Over Time of Ventilatory Management and Outcome of Patients With Neurologic Disease
OBJECTIVES: To describe the changes in ventilator management over time in patients with neurologic disease at ICU admission and to estimate factors associated with 28-day hospital mortality. DESIGN: Secondary analysis of three prospective, observational, multicenter studies. SETTING: Cohort studies conducted in 2004, 2010, and 2016. PATIENTS: Adult patients who received mechanical ventilation for more than 12 hours. INTERVENTIONS: None. MEASUREMENTS AND MAIN RESULTS: Among the 20,929 patients enrolled, we included 4,152 (20%) mechanically ventilated patients due to different neurologic diseases. Hemorrhagic stroke and brain trauma were the most common pathologies associated with the need fo…