This research synthesis examines whether the association between print exposure and
components of reading grows stronger across development. We meta-analyzed 99 studies …

In Volume III, as in Volumes I and II, the classic topics of reading are included--from
vocabulary and comprehension to reading instruction in the classroom--and, in addition …

The last 25 years have seen tremendous advances in the study of psychological processes
in reading. Our growing body of knowledge on the reading process and reading acquisition …

This book updates the Dual Coding Theory of mind (DCT), a theory of modern human
cognition consisting of separate but interconnected nonverbal and verbal systems. Allan …

We present a new database of lexical decision times for English words and nonwords, for
which two groups of British participants each responded to 14,365 monosyllabic and …

The relationship between print exposure and measures of reading skill was examined in
college students (N= 99, 58 female; mean age= 20.3 years). Print exposure was measured …

Bouma's law of crowding predicts an uncrowded central window through which we can read
and a crowded periphery through which we cannot. The old discovery that readers make …

We investigate the origin of differences in the word frequency effect between native
speakers and second-language speakers. In a large-scale analysis of English word …

Six different measures of orthographic processing (three different letter string choice tasks,
two orthographic choice tasks, and a homophone choice task) were administered to thirty …

Empirical work and models of visual word recognition have traditionally focused on group-
level performance. Despite the emphasis on the prototypical reader, there is clear evidence …