PixED (from Pixel to Electronic Document) is aimed at converting document images into structured electronic documents which can be read by a machine for information retrieval. The approach is based on the combination of perception and symbol reading which are the two processes involved when humans detect the organisation of a document. "Pre-attentive reading" denotes the physical segmentation r...

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...

Purpose: This longitudinal study examines measures of temporal auditory processing in pre-reading children with a family risk of dyslexia. Specifically, it attempts to ascertain whether pre-reading auditory processing, speech perception, and phonological awareness (PA) reliably predict later literacy achievement. Additionally, this study retrospectively examines the presence of pre-reading audi...

Neuropsychological data have proven invaluable in advancing our understanding of higher cognition. The interpretation of such data is, however, complicated by the fact that post-lesion behavioral abnormalities could reflect pre-morbid individual differences in the cognitive domain of interest. Here we exploited the virtual lesion methodology offered by transcranial magnetic stimulation (TMS) to...

This research was designed to investigate the effects of critical thinking and concept mappingtest strategies on EFL Iranian learners' reading comprehension in five sessions during near twomonths. Fifty eight male and female students took a pre-test as a language proficiency test first,then they were randomly assigned to two experimental groups and a control group, twentystudents for critical t...

The article considers and proves the importance of promoting generating children’s interest in reading under current conditions. Generating pre-school children is presented as a specially organized process that determines world-view development moral formation child’s personality at stage childhood. authors theoretically experimentally confirm effectiveness forms methods used when preschoolers’...