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Arab, Sepideh; Bijankhan, Mahmood; Eshghi, Marziye – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2022
In this study, we compared children's and adults' ability to accurately identify target words in written minimal pairs (WMPs) with graphemically similar letters while accounting for factors such as gender, similarity of the middle letter in WMPs, mono- versus dimorphemic WMPs, number of syllable, homography, and imageability. Fifty children and…
Descriptors: Accuracy, Indo European Languages, Reaction Time, Comparative Analysis
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Winskel, Heather; Kim, Tae-Hoon – Journal of Psycholinguistic Research, 2021
Mirror invariance or generalisation is the ability to recognise objects as being the same regardless of their spatial orientation. However, when, for example, learning to read Roman script, children need to hone these skills so that they can readily discriminate between mirror letters such as b/d or p/b. Korean Hangul makes a particularly…
Descriptors: Generalization, Korean, Written Language, Alphabets
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Paterson, Kevin B.; Read, Josephine; McGowan, Victoria A.; Jordan, Timothy R. – Developmental Science, 2015
Developing readers often make anagrammatical errors (e.g. misreading pirates as parties), suggesting they use letter position flexibly during word recognition. However, while it is widely assumed that the occurrence of these errors decreases with increases in reading skill, empirical evidence to support this distinction is lacking. Accordingly, we…
Descriptors: Children, Adults, Reading, Alphabets
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Tsao, Raphaele – American Journal on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, 2017
While there is a long history and tradition of behavioral research on basic motor skills in Down syndrome (DS), there has been only limited research on handwriting ability. We analyzed the spatiotemporal features of handwriting produced by children and adults with DS (n = 24), and compared their productions with those of comparison groups matched…
Descriptors: Handwriting, Children, Adults, Down Syndrome
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Hagmann, Carl Erick; Wyble, Bradley; Shea, Nicole; LeBlanc, Megan; Kates, Wendy R.; Russo, Natalie – Journal of Autism and Developmental Disorders, 2016
Enhanced perception may allow for visual search superiority by individuals with Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), but does it occur over time? We tested high-functioning children with ASD, typically developing (TD) children, and TD adults in two tasks at three presentation rates (50, 83.3, and 116.7 ms/item) using rapid serial visual presentation.…
Descriptors: Autism, Visual Perception, Color, Task Analysis
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Roebuck, Hettie; Freigang, Claudia; Barry, Johanna G. – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2016
Purpose: Continuous performance tasks (CPTs) are used to measure individual differences in sustained attention. Many different stimuli have been used as response targets without consideration of their impact on task performance. Here, we compared CPT performance in typically developing adults and children to assess the role of stimulus processing…
Descriptors: Individual Differences, Task Analysis, Adults, Children
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Peressotti, Francesca; Mulatti, Claudio; Job, Remo – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 2010
In this article, the position of the diverging letter effect has been used to investigate the interactions between lexical and sublexical information during reading acquisition. The position of the diverging letter effect refers to the fact that nonwords derived from words by changing a letter are read more quickly when the diverging letter is…
Descriptors: Reading Processes, Alphabets, Children, Literacy
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Whitworth, Cecily – Sign Language Studies, 2011
This article argues for the necessity of phonetic analysis in signed language linguistics and presents a case study of one analytical system being used in a preliminary attempt to identify natural classes and investigate variation in ASL handshapes. Robbin Battison (1978) first described what is now a widely accepted list of basic handshapes,…
Descriptors: Phonetics, Phonemes, Deafness, Phonetic Analysis
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Kolinsky, 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
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Tomanari, Gerson Y.; Sidman, Murray; Rubio, Adriana R.; Dube, William V. – Journal of the Experimental Analysis of Behavior, 2006
Five adult humans were tested for emergent conditional discriminations under rapid-responding contingencies. During four-comparison matching-to-sample baseline training (AB and AC), limited-hold contingencies for responding to samples and comparisons were gradually restricted to the shortest duration consistent with at least 95% accuracy and no…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Higher Education, Staff Utilization, Undergraduate Students
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Simpson, Greg B.; Kang, Hyewon – Language and Speech, 2006
In this paper, we argue that a complete understanding of language processing, in this case word-recognition processes, requires consideration both of multiple languages and of developmental processes. To illustrate these goals, we will summarize a 10-year research program exploring word-recognition processes in Korean adults and children. We…
Descriptors: Investigations, Written Language, Word Recognition, Reading Processes
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Chase, Christopher H.; Tallal, Paula – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1990
Examined effects of orthographic context on the letter recognition skills of dyslexic children, comparing their performance to that of adults and of chronological and reading age-matched groups. Results showed that the two matched groups showed strong word superiority effect (WSE) for words and pseudowords over nonwords. Dyslexic readers did not…
Descriptors: Adults, Age Differences, Children, Cognitive Processes
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Hustad, Katherine C.; Garcia, Jane Mertz – Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 2005
Purpose: This study compared the influence of speaker-implemented iconic hand gestures and alphabet cues on speech intelligibility scores and strategy helpfulness ratings for 3 adults with cerebral palsy and dysarthria who differed from one another in their overall motor abilities. Method: A total of 144 listeners (48 per speaker) orthographically…
Descriptors: Speech Therapy, Alphabets, Cues, Sign Language