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An analysis of print sizes of South African newspapers in relation to prescription of reading devices for low vision patients

African Vision and Eye Health, 2005
One  of  the  aspirations  of  many  low  vision patients is to read newspapers. Many low vision practitioners  use  1M  print  (Snellen  equivalent 6/15 at 40 cm or 6/24 at 25 cm) as the bench-mark for prescribing low vision optical devices for patients
A.O. Oduntan
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Reading and Materiality : Conditions of Digital Reading

, 2022
The conditions of reading are shaped by materialities of that which is read. In the wake of digital publishing, reading activities have been impacted by the affordances of digital technologies, and the chapter “Reading and materiality: conditions of ...
Engberg, Maria,
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A research on comprehension differences between print and screen reading

South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences, 2013
Since the 1980s, extensive research has been conducted comparing reading comprehension from printed text and computer screens. The conclusions, however, are not very consistent.
Szu-Yuan Sun, Chich-Jen Shieh, Kai-Ping Huang   +2 more
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Predicting Reading From Behavioral and Neural Measures – A Longitudinal Event-Related Potential Study

Frontiers in Psychology, 2021
Fluent reading is characterized by fast and effortless decoding of visual and phonological information. Here we used event-related potentials (ERPs) and neuropsychological testing to probe the neurocognitive basis of reading in a sample of children with ...
Aleksandra K. Eberhard-Moscicka, Aleksandra K. Eberhard-Moscicka, Aleksandra K. Eberhard-Moscicka, Lea B. Jost, Lea B. Jost, Moritz M. Daum, Urs Maurer, Urs Maurer, Urs Maurer   +8 more
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Reading acquisition drives linguistic cross-modal convergence in the left ventral occipitotemporal cortex

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Reading acquisition requires linking visual symbols with speech sounds, leading to the development of neural sensitivity to print. While prior studies have shown the importance of cross-modal integration in spoken language areas, the higher-level visual ...
A Dębska, S Wang, K Jednoróg, C Pattamadilok   +3 more
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Reading at the Print Room

Reading at the Print ...
Polley J
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Preschool Children with High Reading Ability Show Inversion Sensitivity to Words in Environment: An Eye-Tracking Study

Journal of Eye Movement Research
Words in environmental print are exposed to young children before formally learning to read, and attention to these words is linked to their reading ability.
Yaowen Li, Jing Zhao, Wangmei Chen, Shaoxue Zhang, Wenjing Zhang, Wei Wang, Limin Xu, Shifeng Li, Licheng Xue   +8 more
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Digital or Print? A Comparison of Preschoolers’ Comprehension, Vocabulary, and Engagement From a Print Book and an e-Book

AERA Open, 2019
Increasingly, children are engaging in early literacy experiences through digital devices. This raises questions about how electronic reading compares to print reading.
Stephanie M. Reich, Joanna C. Yau, Ying Xu, Tallin Muskat, Jessica Uvalle, Daniela Cannata   +5 more
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The acquisition of constructions: Does modality matter?

Reading & Writing
Background: Language analytic ability is well researched in the context of foreign language acquisition but its role in the acquisition of grammar in the native language is under investigation.
Richenda Wright, Salomé Geertsema, Mia le Roux, Elodie Winckel, Ewa Dąbrowska   +4 more
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'The meane peoples capacite': writing readers in early print [PDF]

, 2010
PhDThis thesis examines constructions of what we might call popular readerships in early print. Focusing mainly on the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries, it explores the ways in which a constituency of readers variously imagined as, for ...
Wheare, Michael
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