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 …

Based on the analysis of 190 studies (18,573 participants), we estimate that the average
silent reading rate for adults in English is 238 words per minute (wpm) for non-fiction and …

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 …

The fully updated eighth edition of Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook provides
comprehensive yet accessible coverage of all the key areas in the field ranging from visual …

Pseudowords play an important role in psycholinguistic experiments, either because they
are required for performing tasks, such as lexical decision, or because they are the main …

A long-standing debate in reading research is whether printed words are perceived in a
feedforward manner on the basis of orthographic information, with other representations …

In the present theoretical note we examine how different learning constraints, thought to be
involved in optimizing the mapping of print to meaning during reading acquisition, might …

Abstract [Correction Notice: An Erratum for this article was reported in Vol 139 (4) of
Psychological Bulletin (see record 2012-29656-001). There is an error in Table 1. The …

Morphology is a major organising principle of English and other alphabetic languages, but
has been largely neglected in theories of reading acquisition. In this article, I develop the …

Understanding the extent and limits of non-conscious processing is an important step on the
road to a thorough understanding of the cognitive and cerebral correlates of conscious …