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Psychology, Developmental
Tanja C. Roembke, Eliot Hazeltine, Deborah K. Reed, Bob McMurray
Summary: Many middle school students struggle with basic reading skills, possibly due to a lack of automaticity in word-level lexical processes. Research using a backward masking paradigm showed that decoding ability was uniquely predicted by knowledge, while fluency was uniquely predicted by automaticity. Automaticity was found to be a stable and reliable predictor of skills in average to struggling middle school students.
DEVELOPMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Brendan Costello, Sendy Caffarra, Noemi Farina, Jon Andoni Dunabeitia, Manuel Carreiras
Summary: Skilled deaf readers do not rely on phonological coding during visual word recognition, as evidenced by EEG experiments, suggesting that reading can occur in the absence of phonological activation.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Therdpong Thongseiratch, Tuangporn Kraiwong, Rungpat Roengpitya
Summary: The study found that lexical tone awareness in early childhood is associated with early word recognition, but cannot predict word reading and spelling performance in Grade 3 after controlling for other literacy-related skills.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Hend Lahoud, David L. Share, Adi Shechter
Summary: Previous studies have shown that eye movements during reading reflect cognitive processes. This study investigates the link between visual word recognition and eye movements in Hebrew, a non-European language with a non-alphabetic script. The results highlight both universal aspects of word reading as well as language-specific effects related to the unique features of the Semitic abjad.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Jason D. Yeatman, Kenny An Tang, Patrick M. Donnelly, Maya Yablonski, Mahalakshmi Ramamurthy, Iliana I. Karipidis, Sendy Caffarra, Megumi E. Takada, Klint Kanopka, Michal Ben-Shachar, Benjamin W. Domingue
Summary: Research shows that a simple lexical decision task completed online can be an accurate and reliable measure of reading ability, with high correlation to standardized measures of reading ability.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2021)
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Mehdi Bakhtiar, Maryam Mokhlesin, Chotiga Pattamadilok, Stephen Politzer-Ahles, Caicai Zhang
Summary: This study investigated the impact of orthographic transparency on spoken word recognition in Persian-speaking children at different reading acquisition stages. The findings suggest that learning opaque spelling-sound correspondence may not only lead to interference between language codes but also induce a general processing cost in the entire spoken language system.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
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Psychology, Experimental
Jessica M. Alexander, George A. Buzzell
Summary: A robust experimental literature has found that word frequency and lexical valence contribute to visual word processing at the level of the individual word. This study extends the previous findings by investigating the influence of word frequency, lexical valence, and their interactions on oral reading performance for multisentence stimuli in a naturalistic context.
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Psychiatry
Elisa C. Dias, Heather Sheridan, Antigona Martinez, Pejman Sehatpour, Gail Silipo, Stephanie Rohrig, Ayelet Hochman, Pamela D. Butler, Matthew J. Hoptman, Nadine Revheim, Daniel C. Javitt
Summary: Schizophrenia patients exhibit deficits in reading speed, with longer fixation durations and more frequent saccades. Simulation models incorporating alterations in visual and oculomotor function, as well as lexical processing, outperform models that focus on deficits in only one area.
SCHIZOPHRENIA BULLETIN
(2021)
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Marek Barton, Steven Z. Rapcsak, Vojtech Zvoncak, Radek Marecek, Vaclav Cvrcek, Irena Rektorova
Summary: According to the strong version of the orthographic depth hypothesis, reading in languages with shallow orthographies relies on sublexical pathway through grapheme-to-phoneme conversion, while reading in languages with deep orthographies relies on lexical-semantic pathway. This study used functional magnetic resonance imaging to investigate the neural substrates of reading in Czech, a language with shallow orthography. The results showed similar neural mechanisms in reading between shallow orthography languages and deep orthography languages, supporting the universal dual-pathway neural architecture.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2023)
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Psychology, Multidisciplinary
Gaisha Oralova, Victor Kuperman
Summary: This study examined the impact of introducing spaces to written Chinese sentences in different positions on reading comprehension. The results showed that introducing spaces at highly probable word boundaries can reduce reading time.
FRONTIERS IN PSYCHOLOGY
(2021)
Article
Education & Educational Research
Jinger Pan, Jochen Laubrock, Ming Yan
Summary: The research found that readers can obtain information about the phonological consistency of Chinese characters during sentence reading, and high-consistency previews are processed faster compared to low-consistency previews, leading to greater interference.
SCIENTIFIC STUDIES OF READING
(2021)
Article
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Wen Kong, Quan-Jiang Guo, Yin-Yan Dong, Xuesong (Andy) Gao
Summary: The study compared abstracts written by English majors and Chinese majors to investigate the effects of EFL learning on written L1 Chinese at the lexical level. Significant differences were found in various word classes and lexical complexity, but not in lexical diversity, supporting the multi-competence theory.
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Multidisciplinary Sciences
Danhui Wang, Man Zeng, Han Zhao, Lei Gao, Shan Li, Zibei Niu, Xuejun Bai, Xiaolei Gao
Summary: Interword spaces are important in the reading process of languages that use alphabetic writing systems. In Tibetan, intersyllable tshegs are used instead of spaces as word boundary markers. This study investigates the role of tshegs and the effect of replacing tshegs with spaces in Tibetan reading. The experiments conducted reveal that both spaces and tshegs serve as effective visual syllable segmentation cues in Tibetan reading, with spaces being more effective than tshegs.
SCIENTIFIC REPORTS
(2023)
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Audiology & Speech-Language Pathology
Horabail Venkatagiri, Nuggehalli P. Nataraja, Theja Kuriakose
Summary: This study aimed to investigate whether the orthographic differences between English and Kannada could explain the differences in stutter rates on nonwords. The results showed that stuttering occurred more frequently on nonwords compared to words. Additionally, the length of phonological words and nonwords was found to be positively correlated with stutter frequency.
JOURNAL OF FLUENCY DISORDERS
(2023)
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Education & Educational Research
Jinger Pan, Aiping Wang, Catherine McBride, Jeung-Ryeul Cho, Ming Yan
Summary: This study tested parafoveal morphological processing during sentence reading in Chinese and Korean languages. The results indicate that appropriate morpho-semantic information facilitates lexical processing in Chinese reading but not in Korean reading.
SCIENTIFIC STUDIES OF READING
(2023)