Decreasing materiality from print to screen reading

Reading the metabolic fine print

Barely a decade has passed since the term metabolomics—the systemic analysis of the chemical ‘fingerprints’ of specific cellular processes—made its debut in the scientific literature (Oliver et al, 1998), but its application in medicine goes back to the Middle Ages, when doctors used to diagnose diseases by the colour and smell of the patient’s urine. However, modern-day metabolomics started in...

Reading the Fine Print: Evaluating Discrepancies in Print Reading Disability Statistics

In recent years, data from two national surveys have been used to generate estimates of the prevalence of visual impairment from a print reading disability measure: the National Health Interview Survey (NHIS) of the National Center for Health Statistics, and the Survey of Income and Program Participation (SIPP) of the Census Bureau. These estimates differ substantially. According to the 1991-92...

Computer Assisted Reading (CAR) versus Traditional Print Format in EFL Academic Reading Comprehension

Reading aloud is not automatic: processing capacity is required to generate a phonological code from print.

The present experiments tested the claim that phonological recoding occurs "automatically" by assessing whether it uses central attention in the context of the psychological refractory period paradigm. Task 1 was a tone discrimination task and Task 2 was reading aloud. The joint effects of long-lag word repetition priming and stimulus onset asynchrony (SOA) were underadditive in Experiment 1, s...

Early Activity in Broca's Area During Reading Reflects Fast Access to Articulatory Codes From Print.

Prior evidence for early activity in Broca's area during reading may reflect fast access to articulatory codes in left inferior frontal gyrus pars opercularis (LIFGpo). We put this hypothesis to test using a benchmark for articulatory involvement in reading known as the masked onset priming effect (MOPE). In masked onset priming, briefly presented pronounceable strings of letters that share an ...