TY  - JOUR
A1  - Ehm, Jan-Henning
A1  - Lonnemann, Jan
A1  - Brandenburg, Janin
A1  - Huschka, Sina Simone
A1  - Hasselhorn, Marcus
A1  - Lervag, Arne
T1  - Exploring factors underlying children’s acquisition and retrieval of sound sound-symbol association skills
JF  - Journal of experimental child psychology
N2  - Letter knowledge is considered an important cognitive foundation for learning to read. The underlying mechanisms of the association between letter knowledge and reading skills are, however, not fully understood. Acquiring letter knowledge depends on the ability to learn and retrieve sound–symbol pairings. In the current study, this process was explored by setting preschool children’s (N = 242, mean age = 5.57 years) performance in the acquisition and retrieval of a paired associate learning (PAL) task in relation to their letter knowledge as well as to their performance in tasks assessing precursors of reading skills (i.e., phonological awareness, rapid automatized naming, phonological short-term memory, backward recall, and response inhibition). Multiple regression analyses revealed that performance in the acquisition of the PAL task was significantly associated with phonological awareness and backward recall, whereas performance in the retrieval of the PAL task was significantly associated with rapid automatized naming, phonological awareness, and backward recall. Moreover, PAL proved to be mediating the relation between reading precursors and letter knowledge. Together, these findings indicate that the acquisition of letter knowledge may depend on a visual–verbal associative learning mechanism and that different factors contribute to the acquisition and retrieval of such visual–verbal associations.
KW  - Visual-verbal associative learning
KW  - Phonological awareness
KW  - Letter knowledge
KW  - Rapid automatized naming
KW  - Working memory
KW  - Reading
Y1  - 2019
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2018.07.006
SN  - 0022-0965
SN  - 1096-0457
VL  - 177
SP  - 86
EP  - 99
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - New York
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Yan, Ming
A1  - Pan, Jinger
A1  - Laubrock, Jochen
A1  - Kliegl, Reinhold
A1  - Shu, Hua
T1  - Parafoveal processing efficiency in rapid automatized naming a comparison between Chinese normal and dyslexic children
JF  - Journal of experimental child psychology
N2  - Dyslexic children are known to be slower than normal readers in rapid automatized naming (RAN). This suggests that dyslexics encounter local processing difficulties, which presumably induce a narrower perceptual span. Consequently, dyslexics should suffer less than normal readers from removing parafoveal preview. Here we used a gaze-contingent moving window paradigm in a RAN task to experimentally test this prediction. Results indicate that dyslexics extract less parafoveal information than control children. We propose that more attentional resources are recruited to the foveal processing because of dyslexics' less automatized translation of visual symbols into phonological output, thereby causing a reduction of the perceptual span. This in turn leads to less efficient preactivation of parafoveal information and, hence, more difficulty in processing the next foveal item.
KW  - Dyslexia
KW  - Eye movement
KW  - Perceptual span
KW  - Rapid automatized naming
KW  - Parafoveal processing
KW  - Linear mixed model
Y1  - 2013
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2013.01.007
SN  - 0022-0965
VL  - 115
IS  - 3
SP  - 579
EP  - 589
PB  - Elsevier
CY  - San Diego
ER  -