Poor readers' use of orthographic information in learning to read new words: A visual bias or a phonological deficit?

Memory and Cognition

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 629-640

  McNeil, Alan M ^a   Johnston, Rhona S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HULL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DYSLEXIA; HUMAN; LEARNING; PHONEME; PHONETICS; READING; SCHOOL CHILD; SEMANTICS; SPELLING; TASK PERFORMANCE; VISUAL MEMORY; WORD RECOGNITION; LINGUISTICS; RECALL; RECOGNITION; VISION;

HUMANS; LEARNING; MENTAL RECALL; PHONETICS; READING; RECOGNITION (PSYCHOLOGY); VISUAL PERCEPTION; VOCABULARY;

EID: 45849154246     PISSN: 0090502X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3758/MC.36.3.629     Document Type: Article

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