News tagged with reading ability

Musical aptitude relates to reading ability

Auditory working memory and attention, for example the ability to hear and then remember instructions while completing a task, are a necessary part of musical ability. But musical ability is also related to verbal memory ...

Psychology & Psychiatry Oct 17, 2011 | 5 / 5 (3) | 2

Early math and reading ability linked to job and income in adulthood

Math and reading ability at age 7 may be linked with socioeconomic status several decades later, according to new research published in Psychological Science, a journal of the Association for Psychological Science. The ch ...

Psychology & Psychiatry May 08, 2013 | 5 / 5 (3) | 0 |

Don't get math? Researchers home in on the brain's problem

Can't calculate a tip or even balance your checkbook? Take heart; maybe you can blame your brain - specifically, the parietal cortex in the top back part of the head. And it could be a problem that has roots not in a failed ...

Neuroscience Oct 05, 2011 | 5 / 5 (2) | 0

Over range of ADHD behavior, genes major force on reading achievement, environment on math

Humans are not born as blank slates for nature to write on. Neither are they behaving on genes alone.

Psychology & Psychiatry Apr 22, 2011 | 3.5 / 5 (2) | 1 |

Robust preschool experience offers lasting effects on language and literacy

Preschool teachers' use of sophisticated vocabulary and analytic talk about books combined with early support for literacy in the home can predict fourth-grade reading comprehension and word recognition, new research from ...

Psychology & Psychiatry Aug 18, 2011 | 5 / 5 (1) | 0 |