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The unique contribution of working memory, inhibition, cognitive flexibility, and intelligence to reading comprehension and reading speed

Child Neuropsychology: A Journal of Normal and Abnormal Development in Childhood and Adolescence, 2020
There are several studies showing that executive functions such as working memory, inhibition, and cognitive flexibility are related to reading abilities.
Verena E. Johann   +2 more
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Identifying predictors of reading speed and reading comprehension in Bosnian

Applied neuropsychology. Child, 2020
The goal of the present study was to examine the predictors of reading speed and reading comprehension in third-grade students from Bosnia and Herzegovina (BIH).
Haris Memisevic   +5 more
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The effects of reading mode and braille reading patterns on braille reading speed and comprehension: A study of students with visual impairments in China.

Research in Developmental Disabilities, 2019
The purpose of this study was to examine the effects of reading mode (oral and silent reading) and braille reading patterns (one-handed pattern, mark pattern, parallel pattern, cooperative pattern) on the reading speed and comprehension of students with ...
Xiaomeng Chen   +4 more
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Tilt and reading speed

Journal of American Association for Pediatric Ophthalmology and Strabismus, 2007
To measure the effect of head tilt on reading rate and to determine whether a difference existed between the body or the text being tilted.The Wilkins Rate of Reading Test was used to measure rate of reading in a population of normal readers. In the first part of the study, rate of reading with a head tilt of 15 degrees and 30 degrees was measured; in ...
Alison Y, Firth   +2 more
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Narrow reading: Effects on EFL learners’ reading speed, comprehension, and perceptions

Reading in a Foreign Language, 2017
This study compared the reading speed, comprehension and perceptions of two groups of English as a foreign language (EFL) learners. Each group addressed one of two types of narrow reading: same genre and same title. The same genre texts were three graded
C. Chang, S. Millett
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Exploring the Space Between Good and Poor Spelling: Orthographic Quality and Reading Speed

Scientific Studies of Reading, 2018
Variations in the accuracy and stability of a word’s spelling can be used to gauge the quality of its underlying orthographic representation. The Lexical Quality Hypothesis (LQH) contends that words with higher quality cognitive representations should be
Maya Rossi   +2 more
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The role of word-recognition accuracy in the development of word-recognition speed and reading comprehension in primary school: A longitudinal examination

Cognitive development, 2020
Recent studies suggest that readers need to reach a certain word-recognition accuracy threshold first before word-recognition speed starts to improve. In a longitudinal study, 1095 German primary school children were followed from Grades 1–4.
Panagiotis Karageorgos   +4 more
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An Abbreviated Reading Speed Test

Optometry and Vision Science, 2005
The Minnesota Low-Vision Reading Test (MNREAD) has been developed to measure reading speed. An abbreviated version of the MNREAD test was developed that presented only three large paragraphs and would be easier for children to complete.Fifty children ages 8 to 18 years, with normal eye examinations or refractive error alone, underwent testing of ...
Melissa L, Rice   +2 more
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We All Speed-Read

Scientific American, 2016
The article discusses the area of the brain used when beginning to read, referencing a study conducted by research fellow Laurie Glezer and scientist Maximilian Riesenhuber in the journal "Neuroimage."
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Speed reading on virtual reality and augmented reality

Comput. Educ., 2018
Many virtual reality (VR) and augmented reality (AR) applications in education require speed reading. The current study aimed to explore whether the reading performance on VR and AR is different from that on traditional desktop display, and whether the ...
P. Rau, Jian Zheng, Zhi Guo, Jiaqi Li
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