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Direct linkWolf, Maryanne; Ullman-Shade, Catherine; Gottwald, Stephanie – Australian Journal of Learning Difficulties, 2016
This essay is about the improbable emergence of written language six millennia ago that gave rise to the even more improbable, highly sophisticated reading brain of the twenty-first century. How it emerged and what it comprises--both in its most basic iteration in the very young reader and in its most elaborated iteration in the expert reader--is…
Descriptors: Reading Skills, Child Development, Brain Hemisphere Functions, Dyslexia
Feeney, Aidan; Coley, John D.; Crisp, Aimee – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2010
Relevance theory (Sperber & Wilson, 1995) suggests that people expend cognitive effort when processing information in proportion to the cognitive effects to be gained from doing so. This theory has been used to explain how people apply their knowledge appropriately when evaluating category-based inductive arguments (Medin, Coley, Storms, &…
Descriptors: Age Differences, Logical Thinking, Experiments, Foreign Countries
