Illiterates represent a significant proportion of the world’s population. Written language not only plays a role in mediating cognition, but also extends our knowledge of the world. Two major reasons for illiteracy can be distinguished, social (e.g., absence of schools), and personal (e.g., learning difficulties). Without written language, our knowledge of the external world is partially limite...

Increasingly, children with Down syndrome receive literacy instruction with the expectation of acquiring functional reading skills. Unfortunately, little is known about the processes underlying literacy skills in this special population. Phonological awareness contributes to literacy development in typically developing children, however, there is inconclusive evidence about these skills in youn...

Date Presented 04/13/21This study explored associations between health literacy and severity of visual impairment in older adults with age-related macular degeneration (AMD). The Short Test Functional Health Literacy Adults was used to assess for timed untimed testing conditions. A one-way analysis variance analysis. Timed, 73% participants had inadequate literacy. Untimed, 100% adequate All sc...

A multiple case study was conducted in order to assess three leading theories of developmental dyslexia: (i) the phonological theory, (ii) the magnocellular (auditory and visual) theory and (iii) the cerebellar theory. Sixteen dyslexic and 16 control university students were administered a full battery of psychometric, phonological, auditory, visual and cerebellar tests. Individual data reveal ...

Background: With an increase in the number of disciplines contributing to health literacy scholarship, we sought to explore the nature of interdisciplinary research in the field. Objective: This study sought to describe disciplines that contribute to health literacy research and to quantify how disciplines draw from and contribute to an interdisciplinary evidence base, as measured by citation n...

Mobile phones have come a long way from being plain voice calling devices to becoming multipurpose handy tools powered by ever increasing new applications available on-the-go. For many, the mobile phone of today has become the essential device one does not leave home without. However, for a large percentage of human population mobile phone apps are not of much use as they are not literate or IT...

1 Laboratory of Biological Psychology, Department of Psychology and Educational Sciences, KU Leuven University, Leuven, Belgium 2 Human Brain Research Center, Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Japan 3 Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive, Fédération de Recherche 3C, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Aix-Marseille University, Marseille, France *Correspondence: fel...