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Direct linkVasilev, Martin R.; Slattery, Timothy J.; Kirkby, Julie A.; Angele, Bernhard – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2018
It has been suggested that the preview benefit effect is actually a combination of preview benefit and preview costs. Marx et al. (2015) proposed that visually degrading the parafoveal preview reduces the costs associated with traditional parafoveal letter masks used in the boundary paradigm (Rayner, 1975), thus leading to a more neutral baseline.…
Descriptors: Silent Reading, Eye Movements, Word Recognition, Undergraduate Students
Download full textSabatini, John – ETS Center for Research on Human Capital and Education, 2015
The results of the Programme for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies (PIAAC) survey paint a troubling portrait of the literacy skills of adults in the United States. The survey included a direct assessment of skills and was conducted in 23 countries with nationally representative samples of adults ages 16 through 65. Assessed were…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Adult Literacy, Adults, Vocabulary
Henderson, Lisa; Devine, Katy; Weighall, Anna; Gaskell, Gareth – Developmental Psychology, 2015
Previous studies using direct forms of vocabulary instruction have shown that newly learned words are integrated with existing lexical knowledge only "after" off-line consolidation (as measured by competition between new and existing words during spoken word recognition). However, the bulk of vocabulary acquisition during childhood…
Descriptors: Vocabulary, Language Acquisition, Children, Adults
Peer reviewedMcGeorge, P.; And Others – Intelligence, 1996
Results from a representative sample of 123 adults in the United Kingdom tested with the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale-Revised and a test of word identification time are in line with previous findings that speed of information processing is significantly related to performance IQ but not to verbal IQ. (SLD)
Descriptors: Ability, Adults, Cognitive Processes, Foreign Countries
