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Processing speed, exposure to print, and naming speed

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 June 1999

Robert Kail ,
Lynda K. Hall  and
Bradley J. Caskey
Robert Kail*
Affiliation:
Purdue University
Lynda K. Hall
Affiliation:
Ohio Wesleyan University
Bradley J. Caskey
Affiliation:
University of Wisconsin, River Falls
*
Robert Kail, Department of Psychological Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN 47907. Email: [email protected]
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Abstract

The aim of the present research was to determine the role of reading-related experience and processing speed on the time it took for children to name familiar stimuli. A total of 168 children, aged 7 to 13, were administered measures of global processing speed, title and author recognition, naming time, and reading ability. Naming times were predicted by age-related change in processing time but not by reading experience (as assessed by author and title recognition). The results are discussed in terms of the factors responsible for the relation between naming speed and reading.

Type
Research Article
Information
Applied Psycholinguistics , Volume 20 , Issue 2 , June 1999 , pp. 303 - 314
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1999

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