While previous research has shown that working memory capacity (WMC) predicts sentence processing ability, the understanding of the relationship is limited as almost all studies have used the reading span task as their sole measure of WMC. The current study examined how the effects of garden-path sentences and filler-gap dependencies (as indexed by the P600) related to four measures of working ...

ALAN HIGGITT AND REDMOND SMITH From the Glaucoma Clinic, Institute of Ophthalmology, University of London Director of Research: Sir Stewart Duke-Elder LITTLE attention has been paid to the effect of reading on the tension of the glaucomatous eye. The first brief reference to the subject is by Gradle (1931): The reading test is still less likely to be positive (than the water-drinking test), but...

It has been suggested that auditory and visual sequential processing deficits contribute to phonological disorders in developmental dyslexia. As an alternative explanation to a phonological deficit as the proximal cause for reading disorders, the visual attention span hypothesis (VA Span) suggests that difficulties in processing visual elements simultaneously lead to dyslexia, regardless of the...

This study examined how semantically related information facilitates the intelligibility of spoken sentences in the presence of masking sound, and how this facilitation is influenced by masker type and by individual differences in cognitive functioning. Dutch sentences were masked by stationary noise, fluctuating noise, or an interfering talker. Each sentence was preceded by a text cue; cues we...

objective: cognitive factors are the important correlates of reading disorder and their impairments are established in children with reading disorder. neurofeedback as an intervention has been reported to be useful in improvement of cognitive deficits. the present study aimed to determine the effectiveness of this treatment on attentiveness and working memory and related electroencephalographic...