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The Attentional Control Of Reading: Insights From Behavior, Imaging And Development, Sarah Ihnen
The Attentional Control Of Reading: Insights From Behavior, Imaging And Development, Sarah Ihnen
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The process by which the initially attention-requiring task of transforming scribbles into meaningful concepts eventually becomes facile remains a central riddle of cognitive neuroscience. This body of work represents an effort to provide forward movement in answering the question of how attentional control mediates the process of reading, both by considering different stages of reading competence (development) and by seeking convergence between types of evidence (behavior and imaging).
Inspired by a study published by Balota and colleagues in 2000, the paradigm used throughout this work involves comparing a simple speeded reading task vs. a regularize ("sound out") task (Balota et …