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Direct linkHulslander, Jacqueline; Talcott, Joel; Witton, Caroline; DeFries, John; Pennington, Bruce; Wadsworth, Sally; Willcutt, Erik; Olson, Richard – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2004
Detection thresholds for two visual- and two auditory-processing tasks were obtained for 73 children and young adults who varied broadly in reading ability. A reading-disabled subgroup had significantly higher thresholds than a normal-reading subgroup for the auditory tasks only. When analyzed across the whole group, the auditory tasks and one of…
Descriptors: Reading, Attention, Children, Cognitive Processes
Samuelsson, Stefan; Byrne, Brian; Quain, Peter; Wadsworth, Sally; Corley, Robin; DeFries, John C.; Willcutt, Eric; Olson, Richard – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2005
Individual differences in measures of prereading skills and in questionnaire measures of 4-5-year-old twins' print environments in Australia, Scandinavia, and the United States were explored with a behavioral-genetic design. Modest phenotypic correlations were found between environmental measures and the twins' print knowledge, general verbal…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Environmental Influences, Genetics, Prereading Experience
