The effects of psycholinguistic variables are critical to the evaluation of theories about the cognitive reading system. However, reading research has tended to focus on the impact of key variables on average performance. We report the first investigation examining variation in psycholinguistic effects across the life span, from childhood into old…

Third- and fifth-grade children were presented with a picture-naming interference task to examine the effects of printing words in mixed typecase on children's automatic word processing. (Author/MP)

Uses cloze test and readability formulas to determine whether traditional levels of readability are adequate measures of reading comprehension. Bibliography. (MD)

Reading encompasses a wide range of verbal processes, among them such simple verbal processes as word decoding, letter recognition, name retrieval, and semantic access. The question is whether simple verbal processing differences are adequate to account for general reading ability differences. Across different verbal domains and different ages,…