Chinese reading experiments have introduced important caveats to theories of reading that
have been largely informed by studies of English reading–especially in relation to our …

The Chinese writing system has several features that make it markedly different from the
alphabetic systems that have most often been examined in reading research, including the …

Cognitive development is shaped by interactions between cognitive architecture and
environmental experiences of the growing brain. We examined the extent to which this …

Chinese words consist of a variable number of characters that are normally written in
continuous lines, without the blank spaces that are used to separate words in most …

Understanding the processes underlying normal, impaired, and recovered language
performance has been a long-standing goal for cognitive and clinical neuroscience. Many …

Across languages, age of acquisition (AoA) is a critical psycholinguistic factor in lexical
processing, reflecting the influence of learning experience. Early-acquired words tend to be …

Diversity of vocabulary knowledge and quantity of language exposure prior to literacy are
key predictors of reading development. However, diversity and quantity of exposure are …

Reading acquisition involves learning to associate visual symbols with spoken language.
Multiple lines of evidence indicate that instruction on the relationship between spellings and …

Our understanding of the cognitive processes involved in reading has been advanced by
computational models that simulate those processes (eg, see Reichle, 2015). Unfortunately …

Orthographic systems vary dramatically in the extent to which they encode a language's
phonological and lexico-semantic structure. Studies of the effects of orthographic …