In this dissertation, I present three studies that expand our field's understanding of the role of
orthography in speech production, particularly the interaction between the complexity of an …

Quality improvement is a major current goal of Education in China and this will be achieved
through overall quality improvement of the education system as a whole, a situation that is …

Menschen sind Experten in der Wahrnehmung und Erkennung menschlicher Gesichter, was
stark durch die Erfahrungen des täglichen Lebens geprägt ist. Die menschliche Expertise …

This chapter draws attention to learning to spell through the perspective of two prominent
theoretical frameworks of spelling development–the stage model and the triple code model …

Understanding the factors that contribute to successful acquisition of literacy is, necessarily,
a multidisciplinary enterprise. Even skilled reading may be characterized by detailed …

Grapheme–color synesthetes experience graphemes (eg, letters of the alphabet) as having
a specific, consistent color. Most studies of grapheme–color synesthesia have only …

In electroencephalography (EEG), N1 print tuning is indicated by greater negativity for words
than symbols or false fonts at occipito-temporal electrodes at around 120-200 ms after the …

This paper, emerging from questions from teachers, parents, and educational policy makers
in Canadian Inuit communities, summarizes the results of a literature review of English …

Chinese writing system is different from alphabetic languages, which is composed of
radicals according to specific spelling rules. Such orthographic knowledge plays a very …

Statistical Learning (SL) involves the extraction of organizing principles from a set of inputs.
Recent advances in SL suggest that SL is a componential construct. To better characterize …