RESEARCHER LINKS WORKSHOP: Improving Literacy: Understanding Reading Development and Reading Difficulties across the Lifespan
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Previous studies showed that Chinese dyslexics exhibit more pronounced visual crowding effect (VCE) than controls and that VCE was modulated by character-spacing (Bai et al., 2016). Visual complexity of Chinese characters (defined by stroke numbers) can also modulate VCE (Zhang et al., 2009). In current study, we investigated how visual complexity (average strokes: below 8 / above 12) and character-spacing (default、±3pt、±6pt、+12pt) influence dyslexics reading. Results showed dyslexics were influenced more by VCE while reading high visual complexity sentences. Spacing with +3pt and +6pt led to worse reading performance for dyslexics, while spacing with +12pt didn’t, indicating visual complexity influences dyslexic children’s reading by modulating VCE; and that low visual complexity and enlarging character-spacing facilitate their reading.
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