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Behavioral and Brain Functions BioMed Central Research Open Access Parietal function in good and poor readers 1 1 1 Robin Laycock* , Sheila G Crewther , Patricia M Kiely and David P Crewther2 Address: 1School of Psychological Science, La Trobe University, Bundoora, Victoria, 3086, Australia and 2Brain Sciences Institute, Swinburne University of Technology, 400 Burwood Rd, Hawthorn, Victoria, 3122, Australia Email: Robin Laycock* - r.laycock@.au; Sheila G Crewther - s.crewther@.au; Patricia M Kiely - p.kiely@optometrists.asn.au; David P Crewther - dcrewther@.au * Corresponding author Published: 01 August 2006 Received: 07 October 2005 Accepted: 01 August 2006 Behavioral and Brain Functions 2006, 2:26 doi:10.1186/1744-9081-2-26 This article is available from: /content/2/1/26 © 2006 Laycock et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background: While there are many psychophysical reports of impaired magnocellular pathway function in developmental dyslexia (DD), few have investigated parietal function, the major projection of this pathway, in good and poor readers closely matched for nonverbal intelligence. In view of new feedforward-feedback theories of visua