There is intense public interest in questions surrounding how children learn to read and how
they can best be taught. Research in psychological science has provided answers to many …

The word frequency effect refers to the observation that high-frequency words are processed
more efficiently than low-frequency words. Although the effect was first described over 80 …

During real-time language comprehension, our minds rapidly decode complex meanings
from sequences of words. The difficulty of doing so is known to be related to words' …

“This is an important book and likely the most thoughtful of the year in the social sciences...
Highly recommended, it is likely to prove one of the most thought-provoking books of the …

John Dewey was a pragmatist, progressivist, educator, philosopher, and social reformer
(Gutek, 2014). Dewey's various roles greatly impacted education and he was perhaps one of …

The computational BIA+ model (Dijkstra & Van Heuven, 2002) has provided a useful
account for bilingual word recognition, while the verbal (pre-quantitative) RHM (Kroll & …

In this work we present a framework for the recognition of natural scene text. Our framework
does not require any human-labelled data, and performs word recognition on the whole …

We reintroduce a wide-angle view of reading comprehension, the Reading Systems
Framework, which places word knowledge in the center of the picture, taking into account …

Reading of alphabetic writing systems, such as English, has been extensively studied and
most theories and models of reading are based on findings from these studies. This practice …

Is it possible to learn something without being aware of it? How does emotion influence the
way we think? How can we improve our memory? Fundamentals of Cognition, third edition …