Young skilled deaf readers have an enhanced perceptual span in reading
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DOI: 10.1080/17470218.2017.1324498
Abstract: Recently, Bélanger, Slattery, Mayberry and Rayner showed, using the moving-window paradigm, that profoundly deaf adults have a wider perceptual span during reading relative to hearing adults matched on reading level. This difference might be related… read more here.
Keywords: perceptual span; deaf readers; span reading; deaf ... See more keywords
Flexibility in the perceptual span during reading: Evidence from Mongolian
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DOI: 10.3758/s13414-019-01960-9
Abstract: Readers can acquire useful information from only a narrow region of text around each fixation (the perceptual span ), which extends asymmetrically in the direction of reading. Studies with bilingual readers have additionally shown that… read more here.
Keywords: span; perceptual span; reading direction; flexibility perceptual ... See more keywords