Reading, Psychology of

Originally published in 1987 this volume presented a comprehensive state-of-the-art account of what was known about the psychology of reading at the time. All the fundamental aspects of reading are considered...

Originally published in 1987, Being Skilled presents a new model of how children learn to read, and in particular those who learn quickly and precociously...

First published in 1981, the 15 chapters in this title share a number of common issues. These include the role of contextual influences on lexical access, specific models of lexical access and word pronunciation, speech and visual processes in reading, the role of knowledge in comprehension, and sou..

Computational modeling of word recognition is one of the most active and promising areas of Cognitive Psychology. Indeed, over the past 30 years, computational modelling has tremendously advanced our understanding of the core processes involved in normal and impaired reading. The present special iss..

Originally published in 1984, the previous two decades had seen a rebirth of psychological interest in the process of reading. In this volume questions are pursued across the range of orthographic systems which written languages exhibit...

In the late 1970s, reading research had become a true interdisciplinary endeavour. Given appropriate integration, results from these diverse perspectives can enhance our understanding of reading behaviour hugely, both in its acquisition and in its skilled functioning. Thus, the enthusiasm for such i..

Bringing together a range of experts, the editors of this volume aim to show how psycholinguistic models of normal speech processing can be applied to the study of disorders of speech production, such as stuttering, aphasia and verbal dyspraxia...

This book summarizes the large body of research that exists on the psychology of reading, and puts it into a coherent framework. _x005F_x000D_ The central theme is how readers go about extracting information from the printed page and comprehending the text. _x005F_x000D_ The thoroughly updated secon..

Bringing together neurological assessments of reading and cognition, this provocative volume, originally published in 1985, presents eight major and sometimes controversial studies on the parts and patterns of the reading process...

This book sheds new light on dyslexia and its relationship with reading acquisition, presenting two unique advancements in this area, and offering a new framework which could explain both reading acquisition and developmental dyslexia...

This text outlines the major models of lexical processing that have been put forward in the literature, and how they explain the basic empirical findings that have been reported...

Originally published in 1981, this title is based on the author’s doctoral thesis. By the 1980s it was generally recognised that there are a number of children of adequate general intelligence who nevertheless experience inordinate difficulties in learning to read. This book examines some of the pos..