Reading

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Coloured overlays in schools: orthoptic and optometric findings.

In two studies, the first in a school in Peterborough and the second in a school in Norwich, more than 233 children aged 8-12 years received either an orthoptic examination, or an optometric examination, together with an examination using coloured ...
Lorna Scott, Hazel McWhinnie, Lynette Taylor, Nicola Stevenson, Peter Irons, Elizabeth Lewis, Marylyn Evans, Bruce Evans, Arnold Wilkins (Ophthalmic Physiol Opt, 200203)
coloured-overlays-schools-orthoptic-optometric-findings.asp

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Prosodic characteristics of skilled reading: fluency and expressiveness in 8-10-year-old readers.

Statistical methods of describing prosody were used to study fluency, expressiveness and their relationship among 8-10-year-old readers. 67 children were rated on fluency and expressiveness. The two were partially independent in the full sample: ...
R Cowie, E Douglas-Cowie, A Wichmann (Lang Speech, 200203)
prosodic-characteristics-skilled-reading-fluency-expressiveness-.asp

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Production and recognition bias of stylistic sentences using a story reading task.

Four experiments examined participants ability to produce surface characteristics of sentences using an on-line story reading task. Participants read a series of stories in which either all, or the majority of sentences were written in the same "style," ...
Jennifer Zervakis, David C Rubin (J Psycholinguist Res, 200203)
production-recognition-bias-stylistic-sentences-story-reading-task.asp

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Letter encoding in visual word identification: more evidence for a word-integration explanation for parafoveal preview effects in reading.

A letter string presented briefly in the parafovea facilitates naming a foveally presented word provided that the two stimuli are orthographically similar. The facilitation (called priming) is asymmetrical in that to obtain it, both letter strings must ...
Peter J Kwantes, D J K Mewhort (Can J Exp Psychol, 200203)
letter-encoding-visual-word-identification-more-evidence-word.asp

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Semantic bias, homograph comprehension, and event-related potentials in schizophrenia.

OBJECTIVES: It is controversial whether a semantic processing bias for strong associates is present in schizophrenia, and unknown whether the language abnormalities observed in schizophrenia can be attributed to dysfunctions early or late in cognitive ...
Dean F Salisbury, Martha E Shenton, Paul G Nestor, Robert W McCarley (Clin Neurophysiol, 200203)
semantic-bias-homograph-comprehension-event-related-potentials.asp

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Functional MRI evidence for an abstract, not perceptual, word-form area.

Previous studies have found an area in left ventral visual cortex that responds more to words and pseudowords than to consonant strings. Does this area respond to the perceptual form of wordlike stimuli, or is it responding to some more abstract, ...
Thad A Polk, Martha J Farah (J Exp Psychol Gen, 200203)
functional-mri-evidence-abstract-not-perceptual-word-form-area.asp

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Neural representation of verb meaning: an fMRI study.

The neural basis for verb comprehension has proven elusive, in part because of the limited range of verb categories that have been assessed. In the present study, 16 healthy young adults were probed for the meaning associated with verbs of MOTION and ...
Murray Grossman, Phyllis Koenig, Chris DeVita, Guila Glosser, David Alsop, John Detre, James Gee (Hum Brain Mapp, 200202)
neural-representation-verb-meaning-fmri-study.asp

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Neural basis for sentence comprehension: grammatical and short-term memory components.

We monitored regional cerebral activity with BOLD fMRI while subjects were presented written sentences differing in their grammatical structure (subject-relative or object-relative center-embedded clauses) and their short-term memory demands (short or ...
Ayanna Cooke, Edgar B Zurif, Christian DeVita, David Alsop, Phyllis Koenig, John Detre, James Gee, Maria Pinãngo, Jennifer Balogh, Murray Grossman (Hum Brain Mapp, 200202)
neural-basis-sentence-comprehension-grammatical-short-term-memory.asp

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Neural specialization for letter recognition.

Functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI) was used to estimate neural activity while subjects viewed strings of consonants, digits, and shapes. An area on or near the left fusiform gyrus was found that responded significantly more to letters than ...
Thad A Polk, Matthew Stallcup, Geoffrey K Aguirre, David C Alsop, Mark DEsposito, John A Detre, Martha J Farah (J Cogn Neurosci, 200202)
neural-specialization-letter-recognition.asp

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Probing hemispheric processes in an on-line reading task.

Coney (1998) used a priming procedure to obtain evidence that the left and right hemispheres contributed equally to lexical processing of concrete nouns in a continuous reading task. In that study, however, there was no direct validation of the ...
Jeffrey Coney (Brain Lang, 200202)
probing-hemispheric-processes-line-reading-task.asp