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Visual Symptoms and Reading Performance
Optometry and Vision Science, 1993ABSTRACT Clinical observation indicates that visual asthenopic symptoms are frequently associated with reading for long periods of time. We investigated the relation between visual symptoms and standard measures of reading performance in 78 university students.
J D, Grisham, M M, Sheppard, W U, Tran
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DETERMINANTS OF READING PERFORMANCE AND ACHIEVEMENT
Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1980Verbal, nonverbal, demographic, and eye-hand laterality measures were administered to a sample of 34 Navy recruits attending a remedial reading program and 53 recruits who were members of a regular recruit company. Verbal intelligence scores (as determined by the General Classification Test) differentiated best between the remediation and non ...
R J, Biersner, J M, Larocco
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Reading Performance in Infantile Nystagmus
Ophthalmology, 2013To characterize reading deficits in infantile nystagmus (IN), to determine optimal font sizes for reading in IN, and to investigate whether visual acuity (VA) and severity of nystagmus are good indicators of reading performance in IN.Prospective cross-sectional study.Seventy-one participants with IN (37 idiopathic, 34 with albinism) and 20 age-matched ...
Niraj, Barot +3 more
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A Collaborative Reading Annotation System for Promoting Reading Performance
2017 6th IIAI International Congress on Advanced Applied Informatics (IIAI-AAI), 2017As children now spend considerable time reading electronic media, digital reading skills and good reading comprehension are essential. However, many studies agree that screen-based reading leads to shallow reading, short attention spans, and poor comprehension.
Chung Chang +2 more
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High-performance reading machines
Proceedings of the IEEE, 1991The architecture of a reading machine designed to achieve a high rate of correct interpretation of text as well as high speed in performing the interpretation is described. The refinement of the architecture for a specialized reading machine, to find and interpret addresses on a stream of postal letters, is also described.
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Subtitles and Eye Tracking: Reading and Performance
Reading Research Quarterly, 2013This article presents an experimental study to investigate whether subtitle reading has a positive impact on academic performance. In the absence of reliable indexes of reading behavior in dynamic texts, the article first formulates and validates an index to measure the reading of text, such as subtitles on film.
Kruger, Jan-Louis, Steyn, Faans
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Reading, Voice, and Performance
2016Anne Sexton delivered her last public reading at Goucher College, Baltimore, MD, on October 1, 1974, three days before she took her own life. The high quality, eighty-minute long performance was recorded, but remained unknown until 2005. “Reading, Voice, and Performance” brings the last reading into conversation with some of the better known ...
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Colour of Reading Material and Performance Decrement
Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1992Performance deficit of 32 students on a simple letter-cancellation task, before and after reading a lengthy booklet, was greater for ‘warm’ (pink, yellow) than ‘cold’ (blue, green) paper.
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PARENTS' ATTITUDES AND THE READING PERFORMANCE OF THEIR CHILDREN
Perceptual and Motor Skills, 1990A group of 60 children were given tests in reading performance, intelligence and personality while their parents were tested on personality, attitudes towards reading, and the frequency and duration of listening to their children reading. Factor analysis yielded two factors related to parental attitudes towards reading and their activities with their ...
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Greece and Rome, 1987
Simon Goldhill's Reading Greek Tragedy is a welcome publication – not for its originality but because it makes available an important and eclectic body of critical approaches to Greek texts. Goldhill gives no quarter to the idea that the Greekless reader cannot deal with complex theoretical arguments.
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Simon Goldhill's Reading Greek Tragedy is a welcome publication – not for its originality but because it makes available an important and eclectic body of critical approaches to Greek texts. Goldhill gives no quarter to the idea that the Greekless reader cannot deal with complex theoretical arguments.
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