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12/27/2024 Keep Reading - A Decade with A Word on Words Special | 26m 46sVideo has Closed Captions| CC J.T. Ellison and Jeremy Finley look back on their favorite moments from the last 10 years.
Grainger trained baboons to recognise English words, and tell them apart from very similar nonsense words. The monkeys learned quickly, and could even categorise words they had never seen before.
The way we view the printed word hasn't changed since the Middle Ages. It's always been a left justified wall of text, filling a page.
Balance written responses with plenty of time to just enjoy their books. Researcher Richard Allington distinguishes reading from reading-related “stuff” like copying vocabulary words.
The complexities of pediatric brain imaging have precluded studies that trace the neural development of cognitive skills acquired during childhood. Using a task that isolates reading-related brain ...
Lip-read words can be decoded from the brain's auditory regions similarly to heard speech, according to a new University of Michigan report that looked at how vision supports verbal perception.
It follows up his successful goals of reading 1 million words as a first-grader and 2 million as a second-grader at Kyle Elementary School in Portage.
Neuroscientists have discovered that different brain regions process how we read words. One brain area only sees words as pictures—another brain area sounds out words phonetically.
The promise of learning to read significantly faster is intriguing. But true speed reading isn't supported by the science.
Psychologists help solve 20-year old reading riddle. Children’s early reading experience is critical to the development of their lifelong reading skills a new study.
Neuroscientists have discovered that different brain regions process how we read words. One brain area only sees words as pictures—another brain area sounds out words phonetically.