Cognitive Neuroscience of Language provides an up-to-date, wide-ranging, and
pedagogically practical survey of the most important developments in this exciting field. It …

The objective of this study was to explore effects of writing modality on word recall and
recognition. The following three writing modalities were used: handwriting with pen on …

Research points toward the role of children's fine motor skills (FMS) in reading development
but needs to better control for confounding variables and establish explanatory pathways …

Discussions on the contribution of motor skills and processes to learning to read has a long
history. Previous work is essentially divided into two separate strands, namely the …

Motion-based metaphors help explain a single, often a static, concept (eg, number,
mathematical function, limit of function, continuity of function) in terms of a human motion. In …

Fine motor skills (FMS) are among the most studied nonlinguistic factors influencing early
literacy acquisition. Although developmental studies have often supported the presence of a …

Although most studies in the field of literacy development suggest that writing and reading
are two sides of the same coin, very little is known about writing in kindergarten in …

Expert adult readers process fluent and disfluent fonts differently, at both early perceptual
and late higher-order processing stages. This finding has been interpreted as reflecting the …

Purpose The current study tested whether the difficulties of children with specific language
impairment (SLI) in skill acquisition are related to learning processes that occur while …

In this article, we define motor strength as the extent to which a concept is associated with
body movements and the motor system that guides body movements. We extend this notion …