Examines 9- to 11-year-old dyslexic children's object naming problems and concludes that they are subject to verbal naming difficulties which cannot be accounted for by generally low levels of vocabulary knowledge. Attributes these difficulties to lexical-phonological representation of spoken words they know. (RS)

To gain a better understanding of visual perception in reading, a study tested the predictive validity of the Goodman Model of Reading by measuring the extent to which 82 college students (graduate and undergraduate) were able to perceive and accurately report 10 lines of print. It also attempted to integrate research conducted over the past 100…

Previous studies have found that an object can be categorized faster at a basic level (hammer) than at either a subordinate (club hammer) or a superordinate level (tool). While some attribute this result to basic categories having more distinctive attributes, other factors might cause this result. For example, basic categories routinely have…