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Direct linkMcCreath, Graham A.; Linehan, Cormac M. J.; Mar, Raymond A. – Discourse Processes: A multidisciplinary journal, 2017
Individuals who read more tend to have stronger verbal skills than those who read less. Interestingly, what you read may make a difference. Past studies have found that reading narrative fiction, but not expository nonfiction, predicts verbal ability. Why this difference exists is not known. Here we investigate one possibility: whether fiction…
Descriptors: Word Frequency, Fiction, Predictor Variables, Verbal Ability
