News tagged with word recognition

Emotion in voices helps capture the listener's attention, but in the long run the words are not remembered as accurately

Does the emotion in our voice have a lasting effect? According to Annett Schirmer and colleagues from the National University of Singapore, emotion helps us recognize words quicker and more accurately straight away. In the ...

Psychology & Psychiatry Dec 11, 2012 | not rated yet | 0

Why older people struggle to read fine print

(Medical Xpress)—Unique research into eye-movements of young and old people while reading discovers that word recognition patterns change as we grow older

Psychology & Psychiatry Nov 23, 2012 | 4 / 5 (12) | 3 |

Skilled readers rely on their brain's 'visual dictionary' to recognize words

Skilled readers can recognize words at lightning fast speed when they read because the word has been placed in a visual dictionary of sorts, say Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) neuroscientists. The visual dictionary ...

Neuroscience Nov 14, 2011 | 4.3 / 5 (9) | 20 |

Researchers show there's more than one way to read - with implications for reading disorders

(Medical Xpress) -- With specificity and precision, the brain's Visual Word Form Area, or VWFA, does exactly what its name implies. Every time we see something that looks like a word, it activates. The VWFA ...

Neuroscience Sep 15, 2011 | 4.3 / 5 (4) | 10 |

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 |

Practice makes perfect: Competitive Scrabble players push the boundaries of accepted visual word recognition

Word recognition behavior can be fine-tuned by experience and practice, according to a new study by Ian Hargreaves and colleagues from the University of Calgary in Canada. Their work shows, for the first time, that it is ...

Psychology & Psychiatry Aug 16, 2011 | 4.3 / 5 (3) | 0 |