Phonologic and semantic processing in reading-disabled and nondisabled malesat two age levels

Article Abstract:

A replication study using an additional age group and phonological awareness task was conducted on the confusability paradigm of Byrne and Shea. The study analyzed good and poor readers' phonologic and semantic performances using confusability tasks which included a pseudoword recognition task and a word recognition task. Results of the pseudoword task revealed that poor readers' rhyming versus control errors rose with age, while those of good readers decreased. Word task results showed poor readers committed more errors in the semantic trials, whereas good readers had more errors in rhyming trials.

Research, Human information processing in children, Childhood information processing

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Age changes in the missing-letter effect reflect the reader's growing ability to extract the structure from text

Article Abstract:

A study on the missing-letter effect and its relationship to development was conducted. In two experiments, participants were given reading materials with target letters. The findings suggest that the structure of a word influences the missing-letter effect. The reader's sensitivity during content analysis to patterns of informative items accounts for developmental changes in the extent of the missing-letter effect. These suggest that familiarity and structural role must be considered in explaining letter detection errors in reading.

Reading, Age, Age (Biology)

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Semantic and phonological coding in poor and normal readers

Article Abstract:

Investigations of difficulties in semantic and phonological coding in normal and bad readers of second and sixth grades suggest that problems in reading arise due to phonological coding deficits and not due to semantic coding deficits. The semantic task performance of sixth grade poor readers was lower than that of normal sixth grade readers, while the poor readers from the sixth and second grades performed poorly in the pseudoword learning and rapid naming functions.

Reading disability, Reading disorders

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