Unimpaired readers process words incredibly fast and hence it was assumed that top-down processing, such as predicting upcoming words, would be too slow to play an appreciable role in reading. This runs counter the major postulate of the predictive coding framework that our brain continually predicts probable upcoming sensory events. This means, it may generate predictions about the probable up...

________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Reading and prosody in dyslexic children, pause patterns Dyslexia is widely associated with a deficit in phonological awareness. Only few works in suprasegmental phonology showed that prosody is involved in the processes of decoding and reading comprehension. We developed a corpus (DySpoLec)...

By referring to an example from my doctoral research with children labeled and diagnosed intellectual disabilities, I make a case for the ways that reading silences silent readings within are not only necessary but integral refusing claims of western colonial logics while also attending circulation power imbalances processes. One key aims is consider how embodied knowledges might increase acces...

Modeled Sustained Silent Reading (MSSR) is one of significant approaches for pupils to developing early literacy. To promote MSSR, different follow-up activities are used. Due to the game characteristic of active participation, digital games are potentially regarded as a promising means to promote reading activity. Thus, the purpose of this study is to develop a management-based game, My-Bookst...

Abstract In spite of the reduced visual acuity, parafoveal information plays an important role in natural reading. However, competing models on reading disagree whether words are previewed parafoveally at lexical level. We find neural evidence for processing by combining a rapid invisible frequency tagging (RIFT) approach with magnetoencephalography (MEG) and eye-tracking. silent task, target t...

This paper reports a reading intervention programme, the LMVS (Linguistically Mediated Visual Search) among pre-adolescent Chinese EFLs. It sets out to test whether managing the process of silent reading might modify text complexity as perceived. The paper is a combination of two studies. The first study was the development and assessment of a reading comprehension test. The second study pilote...

One critical question for the front end of models of visual-word recognition and reading is whether the stage of letter position coding is purely orthographic or whether phonology is (to some degree) involved. To explore this issue, we conducted a silent reading experiment in Japanese Kana--a script in which orthography and phonology can be easily separated--using a technique that is highly sen...

The purpose of the present study is to investigate to what extent metrical structure in English plays a role in silent word reading. To address this issue, EEG was recorded while participants were visually presented with lists of five bisyllabic words ending with one word that had either the same or different stress pattern as the previous four words. Results revealed that final words that did ...