It was selected as the subject of a “Viewpoint” article in the APS expository journal Physics [2]. The article is available online without a subsciption at physics.aps.org/articles/v1/34 . I will give some quotes from the article below, but the reader is urged to first read the original. The Katz, et al., article describes an experiment in which a measurement on a quantum state was “undone”, yi...

Mathematical and program-code text is unique because significant portions of it can be anchored to counterparts in formal logical theories that are implemented by computer systems. These systems check formal proofs for correctness and trace logical dependencies among assertions. When elements of expository text, such as definitions and theorems, are formally linked to their implemented counterp...

While frequent readers are often stereotyped as socially awkward, this may only be true of non-Wction readers and not readers of Wction. Comprehending characters in a narrative Wction appears to parallel the comprehension of peers in the actual world, while the comprehension of expository non-Wction shares no such parallels. Frequent Wction readers may thus bolster or maintain their social abil...

Discourse cues (e.g., because, since, therefore, and so) express structural and semantic relationships between parts of an explanation, and are used extensively by human tutors. Previous research by Moser and Moore (in preparation) revealed patterns of cue occurrence, placement, and selection in the speech of expert tutors during tutorial dialogues. An experiment measuring both reading times an...

Prior neuroimaging studies of discourse comprehension and strategic reading comprehension have shown that there are at least two networks of brain regions that support strategic discourse comprehension. In particular, strategic reading comprehension leads to activation of a domain-general control network as well as a network of regions supporting coherence-building comprehension processes. The ...

This introduction to the special issue entitled “Mechanisms of Variation in Reading Comprehension: Processes and Products” defines what is referred as process product reading comprehension. A specific model offered, five articles are discussed referencing it. Key questions are: a) How study products comprehension?; b) comprehension related?; c) Is (modulo decoding) same listening d) Are process...

In this article I provide an overview of the identity, role and function of sacred texts in Hinduism. Hinduism’s tremendous diversity extends to the numerous ways in which different types of texts have been identified as sacred and used by Hindu practitioners. It would be a mistake to attempt to summarise the role of sacred texts in the lives of Hindus, since different texts have had different ...

Sentence adverbials build a multidimensional constituent in many languages, i.e. they can, among others, modify the meaning of entire sentence, emphasize particular element it, or coherence texts. Due to multifaced character this linguistic phenomenon acquisition it foreign language learners can be complex process. The learner is not only faced with variety different words and phrases that used...

Explicit reading strategies help low-knowledge readers make the inferences necessary to comprehend expository texts. Self-explanation is a particularly effective strategy, but it is challenging to monitor how well a reader is applying self-explanation without requiring the reader to externalise the self-explanations being generated. Studies have shown that different reading strategies vary in t...