Title
Individual differences in reading: Separable effects of reading experience and processing skill
DOI
10.3758/s13421-019-00989-3
Abstract
A large-scale eye-tracking study examined individual variability in measures of word recognition during reading among 546 college students, focusing on two established individual-differences measures: the Author Recognition Test (ART) and Rapid Automatized Naming (RAN). ART and RAN were only slightly correlated, suggesting that the two tasks reflect independent cognitive abilities in this large sample of participants. Further, individual variability in ART and RAN scores were related to distinct facets of word-recognition processes. Higher ART scores were associated with increased skipping rates, shorter gaze duration, and reduced effects of word frequency on gaze duration, suggesting that this measure reflects efficiency of basic processes of word recognition during reading. In contrast, faster times on RAN were associated with enhanced foveal-on-parafoveal effects, fewer first-pass regressions, and shorter second-pass reading times, suggesting that this measure reflects efficient coordination of perceptual-motor and attentional processing during reading. These results demonstrate that ART and RAN tasks make independent contributions to predicting variability in word-recognition processes during reading.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
11-15-2019
Publisher Statement
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Recommended Citation
Gordon, P.C., Moore, M., Choi, W. et al. Individual differences in reading: Separable effects of reading experience and processing skill. Memory & Cognition 48, 553–565 (2020). https://doi.org/10.3758/s13421-019-00989-3. Published online November 2019, Issue published on May 2020.