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Dunn, Kristy; Georgiou, George K.; Das, J. P. – High Ability Studies, 2018
Although the role of cognitive processes, such as planning, attention, simultaneous, and successive (PASS) processing in reading ability has been examined in samples of typically developing children and children with reading difficulties, it remains unclear if these processes also contribute to superior reading performance. Thus, in this study we…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Reading Processes, Reading Achievement, High Achievement
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Georgiou, George K.; Das, J. P. – Journal of Learning Disabilities, 2015
The present study aimed to examine the nature of the working memory and general cognitive ability deficits experienced by university students with a specific reading comprehension deficit. A total of 32 university students with poor reading comprehension but average word-reading skills and 60 age-word-matched controls with no comprehension…
Descriptors: Reading Comprehension, College Students, Reading Difficulties, Short Term Memory
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Das, J. P.; Janzen, Troy; Georgiou, George K. – Journal of School Psychology, 2007
Individual differences in reading and cognitive processing among a sample of generally poor readers were studied in order to answer two major questions: Do they have a specific cognitive style that favors global-simultaneous strategies and a weak sequential strategy? If they do not have a distinct cognitive style or strategy, but are merely poor…
Descriptors: Cognitive Style, Economically Disadvantaged, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries
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Cummins, James P.; Das, J. P. – Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology, 1980
Wide Range Achievement Test arithmetic scores related to Wechsler Intelligence Scale for Children-Revised freedom from distractibility and perceptual organization scores as well as simultaneous processing. Educable mentally retarded childrens' reading problems may relate to failure to apply verbal intellectual abilities to academic tasks. (Author)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Adolescents, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries