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Does Extra Interletter Spacing Help Text Reading in Skilled Adult Readers?

2016

AbstractA number of experiments have shown that, in skilled adult readers, a small increase in interletter spacing speeds up the process of visual word recognition relative to the default settings (i.e., judge faster than judge). The goal of the present experiment was to examine whether this effect can be generalized to a more ecological scenario: text reading. Each participant read two stories (367 words each) taken from a standardized reading test. The stories were presented with the standard interletter spacing or with a small increase in interletter spacing (+1.2 points to default) in a within-subject design. An eyetracker was used to register the participants’ eye movements. Comprehens…

AdultLinguistics and Languagemedia_common.quotation_subjectText reading050105 experimental psychologyLanguage and LinguisticsYoung Adult03 medical and health sciences0302 clinical medicineReading (process)Humans0501 psychology and cognitive sciencesEye Movement MeasurementsGeneral Psychologymedia_commonVisual word recognition05 social sciencesEye movementSpace perceptionFixation (psychology)LinguisticsComprehensionPattern Recognition VisualReadingSpace PerceptionWord recognitionComprehensionPsychologyPsychomotor Performance030217 neurology & neurosurgeryCognitive psychologyThe Spanish Journal of Psychology
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The Nature of and Factors Related to Reading Difficulties Among Adolescents in a Transparent Orthography

2013

We examined the nature of and factors related to adolescents’ reading difficulties in a highly transparent orthography. We compared word, pseudoword, and text reading speed and accuracy, rapid naming (RAN) and phonological processing between poor readers (n = 80) and normally developing readers (n = 189). Reading problems were manifested in reading speed and in timed pseudoword reading accuracy. RAN predicted speed, and phonological processing predicted accuracy of reading in both groups. Among poor readers, RAN also explained reading accuracy. For the normally developing sample, phonological processing also predicted reading speed.

Computer sciencemedia_common.quotation_subjectText readingLinguisticsEducationPseudowordReading ProblemsReading (process)ta516Psychology (miscellaneous)ta515OrthographyCognitive psychologymedia_commonScientific Studies of Reading
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The Contribution of RAN Pause Time and Articulation Time to Reading Across Languages: Evidence From a More Representative Sample of Children

2014

We examined the relationship between rapid automatized naming (RAN) components – articulation time and pause time – and reading fluency across languages varying in orthographic consistency. Three hundred forty-seven Grade 4 children (82 Chinesespeaking Taiwanese children, 90 English-speaking Canadian children, 90 Greek-speaking Cypriot children, and 85 Finnish-speaking children) were assessed on RAN (Colors and Digits) and reading fluency (word reading efficiency and text reading speed). The results showed that articulation time accounted for more unique variance in reading in the alphabetic orthographies than in Chinese, and pause time for more unique variance in reading in Chinese than in…

Word readingmedia_common.quotation_subjectComputingMilieux_PERSONALCOMPUTINGAutomaticityText readinglukeminenLinguisticsEducationFluencyreadingReading (process)Ranta516rapid automatized naming (RAN)Psychology (miscellaneous)PsychologyArticulation (phonetics)Rapid automatized namingta515media_commonScientific Studies of Reading
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