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| 4 consecutive subprocesses of reading |
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Definition
1) imaging by optics of the eye
2) control of eye movements
3) word recognition in a single eye pause
4) integration across eye pauses |
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Term
| Eye parameters that affect reading |
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Definition
pupil size,
lens transparency,
accommodation,
convergence |
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| External factors that affect reading ability |
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Definition
illumination
reading distance
letter size and font
magnification |
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Term
| Word recognition in a single pause |
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Definition
pick up info best around fovea,
asymmetric - process lett info to right of fixation better than to the left,
much better with isolated material than with letters grouped together,
lateral interactions (masking) influence detection of letters, overlap of consecutive visual reading fields |
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Term
| reading is facilitated by effects of overdetermination/redundancy in: |
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Definition
-letters
-words
-grammatical sentences |
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Term
Evidence for Phonemic Recoding Hypothesis:
translationg of visual material into sound bases cognition |
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Definition
1) phonemic similarity effects reaction time
ex. brane or brain
2) people make errors with silent letters
3)suppression of lip movements
4) dyslexics have problems pronouncing non-words like widge |
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Term
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Definition
difficulty in learning to read despite conventional instruction, adequate intelligence and socio-cultural opportunities.
May show: esophoria, convergence insufficiency, saccadic jerks, poor fixation |
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Term
| damage to posterior cortex |
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Definition
- associated w/ naming deficits
- problems understanding serial order of things
- problems integrating info from different senses together
- problems w/ visual discrimination
-problems understanding things with fingers |
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Term
| damage to pre-frontal cortex |
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Definition
-problems speaking
-problems with syntax
- attention problems
-inability to switch attention |
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