How word decoding skill impacts text memory: The centrality deficit and how domain knowledge can compensate

Annals of Dyslexia

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 99-113

  Miller, Amanda C ^a   Keenan, Janice M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DENVER   (United States)

Author keywords

Centrality; Comprehension; Memory for text; Prior knowledge; Reading disability

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASSOCIATION; CHILD; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; DYSLEXIA; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE; READING; RECALL; SEMANTICS;

CHILD; COGNITION; COMPREHENSION; CUES; DYSLEXIA; HUMANS; INTELLIGENCE; MENTAL RECALL; READING; SEMANTICS;

EID: 72249100256     PISSN: 07369387     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11881-009-0025-x     Document Type: Article

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