Reading Speed of Experienced Readers of Braille: Right-Left Differences in Reading Speed

Reading Speed, Comprehension and Eye Movements While Reading Japanese Novels: Evidence from Untrained Readers and Cases of Speed-Reading Trainees

BACKGROUND A growing body of evidence suggests that meditative training enhances perception and cognition. In Japan, the Park-Sasaki method of speed-reading involves organized visual training while forming both a relaxed and concentrated state of mind, as in meditation. The present study examined relationships between reading speed, sentence comprehension, and eye movements while reading short ...

Measuring Braille reading speed with the MNREAD test

Braille is an important form of written communication for many visually disabled people. Perceptual factors limiting Braille reading speed are poorly understood, partly because of the lack of accurate, standardized testing methods. In this paper, we describe a new, standardized method for measuring Braille reading speed, adapted from the MNREAD test for print reading speed. The key principles i...

Increasing Braille Radio Reading Speed for Deaf-blind Consumers

A study of braille reading: 1. Reading speed as a function of hand usage and context.

Evidence regarding the respective functions of die hands in braille reading was sought by considering how reading speed is affected by hand usage and degree of contexual constraint. Twenty-four blind readers read aloud prose, statistical approximations and scrambled words with cidier hand alone or with die two hands. No overall superiority of one hand was observed in one-handed reading, but the...

Theories of reading should predict reading speed.

Reading speed matters in most real-world contexts, and it is a robust and easy aspect of reading to measure. Theories of reading should account for speed.