Psychology Library Editions: Psychology of Reading
About the Book Series
The psychology of reading investigates the process by which readers extract visual information from written text and make sense of it. Psychology Library Editions: Psychology of Reading (11 Volumes) brings together as one set, or individual volumes, a small series of previously out-of-print titles, originally published between 1980 and 1995. The set includes topics such as dyslexia and the relationship between speech and reading.
Being Skilled: The Socializations of Learning to Read
1st Edition
By Stuart McNaughton
November 14, 2019
Originally published in 1987, Being Skilled presents a new model of how children learn to read, and in particular those who learn quickly and precociously. Bringing together ideas from such diverse sources as cognitive and developmental psychology and behaviour analysis perspectives on learning, ...
Interactive Processes in Reading
1st Edition
Edited
By Alan M. Lesgold, Charles A. Perfetti
November 14, 2019
Originally published in 1981, this volume is the edited proceedings of a conference held at the Learning Research and Development Center of the University of Pittsburgh in September 1979. The 15 chapters share a number of common issues. These include the role of contextual influences on lexical ...
Orthographies and Reading: Perspectives from Cognitive Psychology, Neuropsychology, and Linguistics
1st Edition
Edited
By Leslie Henderson
November 14, 2019
Originally published in 1984, the previous two decades had seen a rebirth of psychological interest in the process of reading. Attention had increasingly been directed to aspects of fluent reading, such as eye-movement control or contextual effects within the sentence, to a great extent progress ...
Psychophysiological Aspects of Reading and Learning
1st Edition
Edited
By Victor M. Rentel, Samuel A. Corson, Bruce R. Dunn
November 14, 2019
Bringing together neurological assessments of reading and cognition, this provocative volume, originally published in 1985, presents eight major and sometimes controversial studies on the parts and patterns of the reading process. With comprehensive coverage ranging from psycholinguistics and ...
Speech and Reading: A Comparative Approach
1st Edition
Edited
By Beatrice de Gelder, Jose Morais
November 14, 2019
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. New perspectives on speech and reading are introduced by highlighting aspects of the two linguistic skills ...
Surface Dyslexia: Neuropsychological and Cognitive Studies of Phonological Reading
1st Edition
Edited
By K. Patterson, J. C. Marshall, M. Coltheart
November 14, 2019
A child with developmental dyslexia or an adult with a reading disorder following brain damage might read the word shoe as ‘show’, why does this happen? Most current information processing models of reading distinguish between two alternative procedures for the pronunciation of a printed word. The ...
The Psychology of Reading: An Interdisciplinary Approach (2nd Edn)
1st Edition
By Mildred C. Robeck, Randall R. Wallace
November 14, 2019
The need to know why as well as how children and youth respond as they do to reading instruction has guided the selection of this book’s content. The second edition of this title, originally published in 1990, has retained and elaborated upon the three major themes previously presented: that ...
The Psychology of Reading
1st Edition
By Alan Kennedy
November 14, 2019
Originally published in 1984, this new introductory text fulfilled a need amongst both psychology and education students for a book which dealt with reading in a way that explored areas beyond the strictly practical question of how to teach children to read. Previous books on the psychology of ...
The Psychology of Reading and Spelling Disabilities
1st Edition
By A.F. Jorm
November 14, 2019
Originally published in 1983, recent advances in cognitive psychology had revealed that reading and spelling disabilities may be due to deficits in basic cognitive processes. Dr Jorm looks at each type of disability in detail, in relation to normality as well as intellectual disability (formerly ...
Theoretical Issues in Reading Comprehension: Perspectives from Cognitive Psychology, Linguistics, Artificial Intelligence and Education
1st Edition
Edited
By Rand J. Spiro, Bertram C. Bruce, William F. Brewer
November 14, 2019
Research in cognitive psychology, linguistics, and artificial intelligence – the three disciplines that have the most direct application to an understanding of the mental processes in reading – is presented in this multilevel work, originally published in 1980, that attempts to provide a systematic...
Understanding Expository Text: A Theoretical and Practical Handbook for Analyzing Explanatory Text
1st Edition
Edited
By Bruce K. Britton, John B. Black
November 14, 2019
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. More than this, however, the research described represents a shift in emphasis from studying stories, which ...
Psychology Library Editions: Psychology of Reading: 11 Volume Set
1st Edition
By Various Authors
November 09, 2017
The psychology of reading investigates the process by which readers extract visual information from written text and make sense of it. Psychology Library Editions: Psychology of Reading (11 Volumes) brings together as one set, or individual volumes, a small series of previously out-of-print titles,...