Adults with poor reading skills: How lexical knowledge interacts with scores on standardized reading comprehension tests

Cognition

Volumn 146, Issue , 2016, Pages 453-469

  McKoon, Gail ^a   Ratcliff, Roger ^a  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Diffusion modeling; Lexical decision; Reading scores; Struggling adult readers

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY; ADULT; ARTICLE; ASSESSMENT OF HUMANS; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; EDUCATION; HUMAN; INTELLIGENCE QUOTIENT; KNOWLEDGE; LANGUAGE DISABILITY; LEXICAL KNOWLEDGE INTERACTS SCORE; LINGUISTICS; LITERATURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; READING; READING COMPREHENSION TEST; READING TEST; STANDARD; TASK PERFORMANCE; WORD MEMORY TEST; ADOLESCENT; AGED; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; LANGUAGE TEST; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TEST; YOUNG ADULT;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; COMPREHENSION; FEMALE; HUMANS; LANGUAGE TESTS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; READING; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84946426502     PISSN: 00100277     EISSN: 18737838     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cognition.2015.10.009     Document Type: Article

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