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Kimel, Eva; Ahissar, Merav – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2020
Are difficulties of individuals with dyslexia (IDDs) reduced or enhanced in tasks where linguistic regularities typically facilitate performance, such as vocabulary acquisition and reading? If impaired short-term memory and poor phonological decoding pose the main impediments to IDDs, then they are expected to compensate for these difficulties…
Descriptors: Morphology (Languages), Dyslexia, Vocabulary Development, Language Acquisition
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Ozubko, Jason D.; Joordens, Steve – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2011
The pseudoword effect is the finding that pseudowords (i.e., rare words or pronounceable nonwords) give rise to more hits and false alarms than words. Using the retrieving effectively from memory (REM) model of recognition memory, we tested a familiarity-based account of the pseudoword effect: Specifically, the pseudoword effect arises because…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Semantics, Familiarity, Word Recognition