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Amanda C. Miller; Irene Adjei; Hannah Christensen – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2024
Mind wandering occurs when a reader's thoughts are unrelated to the text's ideas. We examined the relation between mind wandering and readers' memory for text. More specifically, we assessed whether mind wandering inhibits the reader's development of the situation model and thus their ability to identify and recall the text's most central ideas.…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Recall (Psychology), Adults, Intelligence Tests
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Massaro, Dominic W.; Taylor, Glen A. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1980
A perceptual-recognition task was used to assess whether utilization of orthographic structure in letter recognition varies with reading ability. Good and poor college readers showed equally large effects of orthographic structure on task accuracy, whereas poor sixth-grade readers did not. (Author/GK)
Descriptors: College Students, Grade 6, Higher Education, Intermediate Grades