Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN) taps a mechanism that places constraints on the development of early reading fluency

Psychological Science

Volumn 20, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1040-1048

  Lervåg, Arne ^b   Hulme, Charles ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF YORK   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

APTITUDE; ARTICLE; AUTOMATISM; AWARENESS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMAN; LEARNING; LONGITUDINAL STUDY; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PHONETICS; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; SPEECH ANALYSIS; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WECHSLER INTELLIGENCE SCALE;

APTITUDE; AUTOMATISM; AWARENESS; CHILD; FEMALE; HUMANS; LONGITUDINAL STUDIES; MALE; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; PHONETICS; REACTION TIME; READING; SEMANTICS; SERIAL LEARNING; SPEECH PRODUCTION MEASUREMENT; VERBAL BEHAVIOR; WECHSLER SCALES;

EID: 68249129755     PISSN: 09567976     EISSN: 14679280     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9280.2009.02405.x     Document Type: Article

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