PURPOSE To characterize the performance of students with and without reading difficulties in reading decoding tasks to investigate parameters that can facilitate reading assessment. METHODS Forty-eight school children, from 7 to 10 years old, who attended 2nd to 4th of Elementary Schoolgrades were studied. Based on their teacher's information, the children were divided into two groups: withou...

The relationship between cerebellar function and reading abilities is unclear. One theory of developmental dyslexia implicates the cerebellum in this reading disorder. Neuroimaging studies in normal readers consistently show cerebellar activation in tasks that involve reading. However, neuropsychological evidence for a relationship between cerebellar function and skilled reading is sparse. To f...

We present a data-driven model for predicting task completion in Project LISTEN’s Reading Tutor, which takes turns picking stories and listens to the child read aloud [1]. However, children do not always finish stories, and we would like to understand why, or at least detect when they are about to stop. So our EDM challenge is to learn a model to predict task completion – a widely used metric o...

Individual differences in reading correlate with individual differences in perception. in memory, and in other simple processes. This study measured these relationships using information processing tasks such as visual search. visual matching, and span of apprehen\ion; and using linguistic processing tasks such as word-nonword judgment, picture-sentence verification. and semantic Categorization...

Retrieval tasks provide learners with an opportunity to focus both on meaning and on form. There are four different retrieval directions. The present study aimed to identify the optimal direction of recall type retrievals during reading and to investigate the outcomes of each one. Forty-eight intermediate EFL learners took part in the study. One of the experimental groups was provided with the ...

Some people are better readers than others, and this variation in comprehension ability is predicted by measures of working memory capacity (WMC). The primary goal of this study was to investigate the mediating role of mind-wandering experiences in the association between WMC and normal individual differences in reading comprehension, as predicted by the executive-attention theory of WMC (e.g.,...

Reports on the effects of dividing attention at study on subsequent perceptual priming suggest that perceptual priming is generally unaffected by attentional manipulations as long as word identity is processed. We tested this hypothesis in three experiments by using the implicit word fragment completion and word stem completion tasks. Division of attention was instantiated with the Stroop task ...

Hadoop MapReduce adopts a two-phase (map and reduce) scheme to schedule tasks among data-intensive applications. However, under this scheme, Hadoop schedulers do not work effectively for both phases. We reveal that there exists a serious fairness issue among jobs of different sizes, leading to prolonged execution for small jobs, which are starving for reduce slots held by large jobs. To solve t...

In the saccadic literature, the voluntary control of eye movement involves inhibiting automatic saccadic plans. In contrast, the dominant view in reading is that linguistic processes trigger saccade planning. The present study explores the possibility of a common control mechanism, in which cognitively driven responses compete to inhibit automatic, perceptually driven saccade plans. A probabili...