Reading

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Do children with autism learn to read more readily by computer assisted instruction or traditional book methods? A pilot study.

The study evaluates the progress of eight children aged 3-5 years with autism attending a specialist teaching unit in their development of reading skills in two conditions: computer instructed learning and book based learning. The authors developed a ...
Christine Williams, Barry Wright, Gillian Callaghan, Brian Coughlan (Autism, 200203)
children-autism-learn-read-more-readily-computer-assisted-instruction.asp

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Phonological awareness in children with Down syndrome.

Research in the area of phonological awareness has mainly focused on the nature of the relationship between reading ability and awareness of phonemes. However, a recent study of phonological awareness in children with Down syndrome questioned the ...
Helen Fletcher, Sue Buckley (Downs Syndr Res Pract, 200203)
phonological-awareness-children-down-syndrome.asp

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A dynamical model of saccade generation in reading based on spatially distributed lexical processing.

The understanding of the control of eye movements has greatly benefited from the analysis of mathematical models. Currently most comprehensive models include sequential shifts of visual attention. Here we propose an alternative model of eye movement ...
Ralf Engbert, André Longtin, Reinhold Kliegl (Vision Res, 200203)
dynamical-model-saccade-generation-reading-based-spatially.asp

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Brain mechanisms for reading words and pseudowords: an integrated approach.

The present study tested two predictions of dual-process models of reading: (i) that the brain structures involved in sublexical phonological analysis and those involved in whole-word phonological access during reading are different; and (ii) that ...
Panagiotis G Simos, Joshua I Breier, Jack M Fletcher, Barbara R Foorman, Eduardo M Castillo, Andrew C Papanicolaou (Cereb Cortex, 200203)
brain-mechanisms-reading-words-pseudowords-integrated-approach.asp

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Reading level attenuates differences in neuropsychological test performance between African American and White elders.

The current study sought to determine if discrepancies in quality of education could explain differences in cognitive test scores between African American and White elders matched on years of education. A comprehensive neuropsychological battery was ...
Jennifer J Manly, Diane M Jacobs, Pegah Touradji, Scott A Small, Yaakov Stern (J Int Neuropsychol Soc, 200203)
reading-level-attenuates-differences-neuropsychological-test.asp

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The effect of negation on deductive inferences.

Research shows that negation can suppress the activation of propositions presented explicitly in text, but does negation have a similar effect on propositions that can be inferred? That is, does negation inhibit the inference process? Four experiments ...
R Brooke Lea, Elizabeth J Mulligan (J Exp Psychol Learn Mem Cogn, 200203)
effect-negation-deductive-inferences.asp

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Strategies of text retrieval: a criterion shift account.

This study scrutinized peoples ability to apply different strategies to randomly intermixed immediate and delayed test items. In three experiments, participants first read one set of stories. Later, they read more stories, and after each one, answered ...
Murray Singer, Nathalie Gagnon, Eric Richards (Can J Exp Psychol, 200203)
strategies-text-retrieval-criterion-shift-account.asp

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Masked word repetition results in increased fMRI signal: a framework for understanding signal changes in priming.

Evidence from multiple paradigms has converged on the finding that stimulus repetition most often results in decreases in neural activity. The mechanisms of these decreases, however, are not yet well understood. The current study attempted to determine, ...
David M Schnyer, Lee Ryan, Theodore Trouard, Kenneth Forster (Neuroreport, 200203)
masked-word-repetition-results-increased-fmri-signal-framework.asp

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Exposure to Reach Out and Read and vocabulary outcomes in inner city preschoolers.

To examine the association between exposure to Reach Out and Read and vocabulary outcomes in children, a consecutive sample of 200 parent/child pairs was studied at two inner-city health centers. Children at clinic A were exposed to Reach Out and Read, a ...
Iman Sharif, Sarah Rieber, Philip O Ozuah, Sarah Reiber (J Natl Med Assoc, 200203)
exposure-reach-out-read-vocabulary-outcomes-inner-city-preschoolers.asp

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Positive mood and executive function: evidence from stroop and fluency tasks.

Contrasting predictions have been made about the effects of positive mood states on the performance of frontal lobe tests that tap executive functions such as inhibition, switching, and strategy use. It has been argued that positive mood is likely to ...
Louise H Phillips, Rebecca Bull, Ewan Adams, Lisa Fraser (Emotion, 200203)
positive-mood-executive-function-evidence-stroop-fluency-tasks.asp