Reading, Psychology of

Originally published in 1981, this title is based on the author’s doctoral thesis. By the 1980s it was generally recognised that there are a number of children of adequate general intelligence who nevertheless experience inordinate difficulties in learning to read. This book examines some of the pos..

Originally published in 1982. This book is concerned with the kinds of demands on our reading ability made by work or study. It gives readers techniques to assume responsibility for their own reading. In the form of a workbook, it consists of a number of exercises together with interleaving commenta..

Situation Models and Levels of Coherence is of professional and scholarly interest to cognitive scientists who specialize in reading, knowledge representation, mental models, discourse analysis, and metaphor/symbol...

Originally published in 1995, this collection of papers introduced a new dimension to the understanding of reading by focusing on the relation between spoken and written language processing...

First published in 1983, advances in cognitive psychology revealed that reading and spelling disabilities may be due to deficits in basic cognitive processes. Jorm looks at each type of disability, in relation to normality as well as intellectual disability, and finds that new research provides a us..

Research in cognitive psychology, linguistics, and AI – the three disciplines that have the most direct application to an understanding of the mental processes in reading – is presented in this work, first published in 1980, that attempts to provide a systematic and scientific basis for understandin..

Originally published in 1985, the various chapters in this volume give examples of research on all three aspects of text understanding – namely, structure, world knowledge and process...