How is orthographic knowledge acquired? In line with the self-teaching hypothesis, most
computational models assume that phonological recoding has a pivotal role in orthographic …

The processing of letters within strings is challenging for beginning readers. Letter
identification is affected by visual similarity, loss of information with eccentricity and …

A wide share of secondary school children does not reach the expected competence level in
reading. These children could benefit from more efficient intervention responses, providing a …

What are the causes of dyslexia? Decades of research reflect a determined search for a
single cause where a common assumption is that dyslexia is a consequence of problems …

Several studies have demonstrated an influence of semantic knowledge on verbal working
memory (WM) performance, such as shown by the observation of semantic relatedness …

Background: People with Parkinson's disease (PD) frequently experience reading
difficulties. Little is known about what functional impairments distinguish people with PD with …

Visual attention span (VAS) has been shown to make a unique contribution to reading skills
over and above phonological awareness and rapid automatized naming (RAN). In the …

During reading acquisition, beginning readers transition from serial to more parallel
processing. The acquisition of word specific knowledge through orthographic learning is …

Recent neurocognitive models commonly consider speech perception as a hierarchy of
processes, each corresponding to specific temporal scales of collective oscillatory …

Metacognition refers to the capacity to reflect upon our own cognitive processes. Its
contribution to reading development, when children start building their orthographic lexicon …