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Direct linkKolinsky, Regine; Verhaeghe, Arlette; Fernandes, Tania; Mengarda, Elias Jose; Grimm-Cabral, Loni; Morais, Jose – Journal of Experimental Psychology: General, 2011
To examine whether enantiomorphy (i.e., the ability to discriminate lateral mirror images) is influenced by the acquisition of a written system that incorporates mirrored letters (e.g., b and d), unschooled illiterate adults were compared with people reading the Latin alphabet, namely, both schooled literate adults and unschooled adults…
Descriptors: Literacy Education, Illiteracy, Latin, Visual Discrimination
Woodrome, Stacey E.; Johnson, Kathy E. – Reading and Writing: An Interdisciplinary Journal, 2009
Two studies were conducted to evaluate the extent to which visual discrimination (VisD) skills play a role in developing letter identification abilities, which are essential in learning to read. Results from a correlational analysis of 73 4- and 5-year-olds revealed a significant association between VisD and letter identification abilities, which…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Phonemics, Phonemic Awareness, Alphabets
