Wanlu Fu

Research Interests

My research mainly focuses on investigating the role of visual attentional deficit in developmental dyslexia at both behavioral and neural levels. I have been devoted to exploring the cognitive and neural mechanisms of visual spatial attention shifting in adults and children (both normal children and dyslexia children) using eye-tracking and EEG techniques. I found that attention shifting deficit of dyslexia is due to the sluggish attentional disengagement. I am now interested in better understanding the attentional disengagement deficit and the correlation between this deficit with reading processing in dyslexic children across different writing system (Italian and Chinese dyslexic children).

Education
Laurea (M.Sc.), Clinical Cognitive Neuroscience, Center of Cognition of Brain Disorders, Hangzhou Normal University, China (2019)

Representative publications

• Fu, W, Zhao, J, Ding, Y, Wang, Z. (2019). Dyslexic children are sluggish in disengaging spatial attention. Dyslexia, 25:158-172. doi: 10.1002/dys.1609