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AUTHOR
Victoria Panadero
Un pequeño aumento en el espaciado entre letras favorece la lectura en niños disléxicos
Varias investigaciones recientes han mostrado que un ligero aumento del espaciado entre las letras (respecto al espaciado estándar) produce tiempos de lectura más rápidos en los niños con dislexia, así como mejoras en la comprensión de los textos. Si bien el aumento en el espaciado de las letras no “cura” la dislexia, sí permite una mejora en el proceso de lectura. Es importante remarcar que la posibilidad de modificar el espaciado entre letras se encuentra disponible en los programas de procesamiento de texto. Creemos que dicha opción debería estar disponible próximamente en los libros electrónicos.
Does viotin activate violin more than viocin? On the use of visual cues during visual-word recognition.
The vast majority of neural and computational models of visual-word recognition assume that lexical access is achieved via the activation of abstract letter identities. Thus, a word’s overall shape should play no role in this process. In the present lexical decision experiment, we compared word-like pseudowords like viotín (same shape as its base word: violín) vs. viocín (different shape) in mature (college-aged skilled readers), immature (normally reading children), and immature/impaired (young readers with developmental dyslexia) word-recognition systems. Results revealed similar response times (and error rates) to consistent-shape and inconsistent-shape pseudowords for both adult skille…
The effects of inter-letter spacing in visual-word recognition: Evidence with young normal readers and developmental dyslexics
Abstract Recent research has demonstrated that slight increases of inter-letter spacing have a positive impact on skilled readers' recognition of visually presented words. In the present study, we examined whether this effect generalises to young normal readers and readers with developmental dyslexia, and whether increased inter-letter spacing affects the reading times and comprehension of a short text. To that end, we conducted a series of lexical decision and continuous reading experiments in which words were presented with the default settings or with a small increase in inter-letter spacing. Increased spacing produced shorter word identification times not only with adult skilled readers…
Suppression of mirror generalization for reversible letters: Evidence from masked priming
Abstract Readers of the Roman script must “unlearn” some forms of mirror generalization when processing printed stimuli (i.e., herb and herd are different words). Here we examine whether the suppression of mirror generalization is a process that affects all letters or whether it mostly affects reversible letters (i.e., b / d ). Three masked priming lexical decision experiments were conducted to examine how the cognitive system processes mirror images of reversible vs. non-reversible letters embedded in Spanish words. Repetition priming effects relative to the mirror-letter condition were substantially greater when the critical letter was reversible (e.g., idea - IDEA vs. ibea - IDEA ) than …