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Lupyan, Gary; Mirman, Daniel; Hamilton, Roy; Thompson-Schill, Sharon L. – Cognition, 2012
Humans have an unparalleled ability to represent objects as members of multiple categories. A given object, such as a pillow may be--depending on current task demands--represented as an instance of something that is soft, as something that contains feathers, as something that is found in bedrooms, or something that is larger than a toaster. This…
Descriptors: Evidence, Reading Difficulties, Stimulation, Classification
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Ziegler, Johannes C.; Castel, Caroline; Pech-Georgel, Catherine; George, Florence; Alario, F-Xavier; Perry, Conrad – Cognition, 2008
Developmental dyslexia was investigated within a well-understood and fully specified computational model of reading aloud: the dual route cascaded model (DRC [Coltheart, M., Rastle, K., Perry, C., Langdon, R., & Ziegler, J.C. (2001). DRC: A dual route cascaded model of visual word recognition and reading aloud. Psychological Review, 108,…
Descriptors: Reading Difficulties, Dyslexia, Word Recognition, Dictionaries
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McArthur, G. M.; Ellis, D.; Atkinson, C. M.; Coltheart, M. – Cognition, 2008
Sixty-five children with specific reading disability (SRD), 25 children with specific language impairment (SLI), and 37 age-matched controls were tested for their frequency discrimination, rapid auditory processing, vowel discrimination, and consonant-vowel discrimination. Subgroups of children with SRD or SLI produced abnormal frequency…
Descriptors: Control Groups, Spelling, Speech, Vowels
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Manis, Franklin R.; And Others – Cognition, 1996
Studied 51 dyslexic children, 51 age-matched normal readers, and 27 younger normal readers to explore whether there are different subtypes of developmental dyslexia, and whether developmental dyslexia represents delay or deviance. Found evidence to support two subtypes: surface and phonological dyslexia. (DR)
Descriptors: Behavior Patterns, Cognitive Processes, Developmental Delays, Dyslexia