Developmental surface dysgraphia: what is the underlying cognitive impairment?

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This article describes research that suggests people with the ability to read well but spell poorly couple a good configurational memory with poor encoding of serial order. Experimental design to test the causes of agraphia, or dysgraphia, and a hypothesis for how reading strategy can exist with encoding order problems, are discussed.

Causes of, Agraphia, Dysgraphia

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Meaning analysis of inflected words

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This author argues meaning analysis is controlled by the stem in the Finnish language. Comparison of this hypothesis with that of the stem and suffix receiving equal semantic analysis and how results compare to recent morphological processing research are discussed.

Language and languages, Grammar, Comparative and general, Grammar, Finns

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On certain limitations accompanying readers' interpretations of corrections in episodic text

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This article describes research that suggests how critical inferences are made over time while reading. Experimental data clarifying this process, the role of illegitimate inferences, and analysis are presented.

Psychological aspects, Reading, Causation, Causation (Philosophy), Inference

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