Executive Control Processes in Reading

First published in 1987. The first thing the reader of this volume needs to know is: What is executive control in reading, exactly? Executive control processes coordinate the functioning of the human cognitive system. This book seeks to examine how mature, skilled readers use information about the difficulty and importance of text, and of their comprehension tasks in allocating their reading time and effort.

List of contents

1 Executive Control in Reading Comprehension 2 Reading and Writing for Electronic Journals 3 Typography and Executive Control Processing in Reading 4 Typography and Reading Strategy 5 Executive Control in Studying 6 The Activation and Use of Scripted Knowledge in Reading about Routine Activities 7 Knowledge Acquisition for Application Cognitive Flexibility and Transfer in Complex Content Domains. 8 Instructional Variables that Influence Cognitive Processes During Reading 9 How is Reading Time influenced by knowledge-based inferences and world knowledge 10 Remembering Reading Operations with and without Awareness 11 Characterizing the processing units of reading: Effects of Intra and Interword spaces in a letter detection task.

About the author

Bruce.K. Britton, Shawn. M. Glynn, University of Georgia

Product details

• Assisted by: B K Britton (Editor), B. K. Britton (Editor), Britton B. K. (Editor), S M Glynn (Editor), S. M. Glynn (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor and Francis
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.06.1987
• EAN: 9780898598834
• ISBN: 978-0-89859-883-4
• No. of pages: 328
• Weight: 610 g
• Series: Psychology of Reading and Reading Instruction Series
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Education > General, dictionaries; PSYCHOLOGY / Movements / General, PSYCHOLOGY / Neuropsychology, PSYCHOLOGY / Physiological Psychology, Physiological & neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Psychological theory, systems, schools and viewpoints, Physiological and neuro-psychology, biopsychology, Psychological theory & schools of thought