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West, Gillian; Shanks, David R.; Hulme, Charles – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2021
The procedural deficit hypothesis claims that impaired procedural learning is a causal risk factor for developmental dyslexia and developmental language disorder. We investigated the relationships between measures of basic cognitive processes (declarative learning, procedural learning and attention) and measures of attainment (reading, grammar and…
Descriptors: Attention Control, Learning Processes, Predictor Variables, Reading Skills
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Meyer, Bonnie J. F.; Talbot, Andrew P.; Florencio, Dayze – Scientific Studies of Reading, 1999
Presents finding of two studies designed to test the theory that limitations in working memory pose a lower limit to reading rate for effective prose recall. Tests college students, young adults and older adults, finding no evidence to support the theory. (NH)
Descriptors: Adults, College Students, Learning Processes, Memory
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Ehri, Linnea C. – Scientific Studies of Reading, 2005
Reading words may take several forms. Readers may utilize decoding, analogizing, or predicting to read unfamiliar words. Readers read familiar words by accessing them in memory, called sight word reading. With practice, all words come to be read automatically by sight, which is the most efficient, unobtrusive way to read words in text. The process…
Descriptors: Phonemes, Memory, Learning Processes, Graphemes