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Betjemann, Rebecca S.; Keenan, Janice M. – Child Development, 2008
Lexical priming was assessed in children with reading disability (RD) and in age-matched controls (M= 11.5 years), in visual and auditory lexical decision tasks. In the visual task, children with RD were found to have deficits in semantic (SHIP-BOAT), phonological/graphemic (GOAT-BOAT), and combined (FLOAT-BOAT) priming. The same pattern of…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Reading Skills, Semantics, Semiotics
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Rosinski, Richard R.; And Others – Child Development, 1975
Presents two experiments which measured latencies in a picture-word interference task to assess semantic processing. Results suggest that picture-word interference is partly semantically based and that children and adults experience an equivalent amount of semantic interference. (Author/SDH)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Elementary School Students, Pictorial Stimuli
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Hess, Thomas M.; Radtke, Robert C. – Child Development, 1981
Analyzes the roles of verbal coding skills, processing efficiency, and memory ability in accounting for individual and developmental differences in the reading comprehension of children in grades 3 through 8. Results indicate that skill differences can arise through ability differences at two independent levels--processing speed and memory.…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Elementary School Students, Individual Differences, Language Processing