Psychology Library Editions : 11 Volume Set.

Cover -- Volume 01 -- Cover -- Half Title -- Title page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Table of Contents -- Part I: Theories of Text Analysis -- Chapter 1: Understanding ExpositoryText: From Structure to Process and World Knowledge -- Chapter 2: Prose Analysis: Purposes, Procedures, and Problems -- Overview of the Chapter -- Necessity for Identifying Text Structure -- Reasons for Different Approaches for Identifying Prose Structure -- Meyer's Approach to Prose Analysis -- General Comparison of Meyer's Approach to Others -- Detailed Comparison of Kintsch and Meyer Approaches -- Purposes and Problems -- Chapter 3: Structural Analysis of Science Prose: Can We Increase Problem-Solving Performance? -- Introduction -- Structural Analysis of Scientific Prose -- Improvement of Problem-Solving Performance -- Implications for Instruction -- Chapter 4: Thematic Processes in the Comprehension of Technical Prose -- Theoretical Properties of Technical Prose -- Methods for Studying Thematic Processes -- Results -- A Model of Thematic Processes -- Conclusion -- Chapter 5: Implicit Knowledge, Question Answering, and the Representation of Expository Text -- Goals of the Proposed Representational System -- Representing Passages and Schemas -- A Question-Answering Method for Empirically Exposing Passage Inferences -- Utilization of Conceptual Graph Structures in Behavioral Tasks -- The Content and Structure of Schemas -- A Question-Answering Method of Exploring the Construction of Prose Representations -- Differences Between Narrative and Expository Prose -- The Representation of Expository Prose -- Some Representational Issues that Confront a Theory with Conceptual Graph Structures -- Final Comments -- Chapter 6: Knowledge and the Processing of Narrative and Expository Texts.

Knowledge and the Processing of Narrative Text -- Knowledge and the Processing of Expository Text -- Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 7: A Knowledge-Based Model of Prose Comprehension: Applications to Expository Texts -- Introduction -- Some Basic Premises of Comprehension Research -- A Model of Micropropositional Coherence: Miller &amp -- Kintsch (1980) -- A Knowledge-Based Model of Macroprocessing -- Summary and Comments on Related Research -- Chapter 8: Cognitive Demands of Processing Expository Text: A Cognitive Workbench Model -- Theme and Overview -- Cognitive Capacity Allocation to Processes -- The Cognitive Workbench Model of Processing Expository Text -- Processing Load During Two Readings of an Expository Text -- Summary -- Chapter 9: An Exposition on Understanding Expository Text -- Memory Structures -- World Knowledge -- Processes -- Concluding Remarks -- Part II: A Research Handbook for Text and World Knowledge Analysis -- Chapter 10: Prose Analysis: Purposes, Procedures, and Problems -- Constructing the Content Structure -- Appendix -- Chapter 11: How to Analyze Science Prose -- Procedure for Analyzing Prose -- Examples of Analyzed Passages -- Chapter 12: A Guide to Propositional Analysis for Research on Technical Prose -- Introduction -- Representation of Propositions -- Construction of Propositions -- Some Difficult Problems in Propositionalization -- Example Analysis of a Text -- Use of Propositional Analysis in Experiments -- Chapter 13: How to Construct Graph Structures Conceptual -- Segmenting Information into Statement Nodes -- Node Categories -- Arc Categories -- An Example Conceptual Graph Structure -- Chapter 14: Knowledge and the Processing of Narrative and Expository Text: Some Methodological Issues -- Assessment of Knowledge -- Contrastive Research -- Issues of Scoring -- The Interaction of the Text Contents and Knowledge.

Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 15: A Knowledge-Based Model of Prose Comprehension: An Annotated Trace -- An Annotated Trace of the Model's Processing: SAINT -- Author Index -- Subject Index -- Volume 02 -- Cover -- Half Title -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Contributors -- Dedication -- Preface -- Introduction Speech and Reading: One Side to Two Coins -- Speech processing, its specificity and its relation to reading -- Language and reading in different modalities -- Reading in different orthographies -- Reading, the impact of its acquisition on language processes and reading disorders -- References -- Part I: Speech Processing, Its Specificity and Its Relation to Reading -- Chapter 1: The Relation of Speech to Reading and Writing -- What does it mean to say that speech is more natural? -- How is the difference in naturalness to be understood? -- How can reading‒writing be made to exploit the more natural processes of speech? -- What obstacle blocks the natural path? -- Why should the obstacle loom especially large for some? -- What are the implications for a theory of speech? -- Acknowledgement -- References -- Chapter 2: The Recognition of Lexical Units in Speech -- The metrical segmentation strategy -- The lexicon and segmentation -- Conclusions -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 3: On the Linguistic Module in Auditory Memory -- Introduction -- Experiment 1 -- Experiment 2 -- Experiment 3 -- Experiment 4 -- Experiment 5 -- Concluding comment -- References -- Chapter 4: Gestures, Features and Segments in Early Child Speech -- Introduction -- Method -- Results and discussion -- General discussion -- Summary -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Part II: Speech and Reading in Different Modalities -- Chapter 5: Languages by Touch: The Case of Braille Reading.

Modes of language input -- The Braille system -- The exploration of Braille text -- Braille word recognition -- Summary -- References -- Chapter 6: Pre-lingual Deafness and Literacy: A New Look at Old Ideas -- Introduction -- Experiment 1: Spelling -- Experiment 2: Lexical decision -- Discussion -- References -- Chapter 7: Memory Deficits for Heard and Lip-read Speech in Young and Adult Poor Readers -- Introduction -- Experiment 1 -- Experiment 2 -- General discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Part III: Reading in Different Orthographies -- Chapter 8: Cognitive Processes in Writing Chinese Characters: Basic Issues and Some Preliminary Data -- Introduction -- Characteristics of Chinese script and their roles in processing -- A dysgraphia and dyslexia battery in Cantonese Chinese -- Preliminary data -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 9: Phonological Processes in Serbo-Croatian and English -- Introduction -- The phonological ambiguity effect in Serbo-Croatian -- Pseudohomophonic associative priming in English -- Similar processing of English words and their pseudohomophonic counterparts -- Backward and forward priming by phonology in English and Serbo-Croatian -- Summary -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 10: Nonsemantic Reading in Kanji and English: Universal and Language-specific Features -- Introduction -- Background -- Nonsemantic reading in Kanji -- Nonsemantic reading in English -- Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 11: Learning to Be a Conspirator: A Tale of Becoming a Good Chinese Reader -- Introduction -- The nature of Chinese orthography -- The role of Chinese orthography in character naming -- The experiment -- Method -- Results -- Discussion -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Appendix -- Part IV: Reading Acquisition and Its Impact on Language Processes.

Chapter 12: Phonological and Grammatical Skills in Learning to Read -- Two possible factors in learning to read -- Children's phonological awareness -- Grammatical skills and reading -- Conclusion -- References -- Chapter 13: The Impact of Learning to Read on the Functional Anatomy of Language Processing -- Introduction -- Methods of brain imaging -- The "standard view" of the functional anatomy of language processing -- New insights into the functional anatomy of reading -- Extending functional‒anatomical analysis to development -- Summary -- Acknowledgments -- References -- Chapter 14: Literacy and Linguistic Awareness -- Introduction -- Method -- Results -- References -- Chapter 15: The Consequences of Phonemic Awareness -- Introduction -- Phonemic awareness is a crucial factor of success in alphabetic literacy acquisition -- The effects of phonemic awareness on speech recognition abilities -- Acknowledgements -- References -- Chapter 16: Mechanisms of Word-retrieval: Neuropsychological Investigations of Patients with Parkinson's Disease -- Introduction -- Word-retrieval deficits in Parkinson's disease patients -- Verbal fluency and word search in Parkinson's disease patients -- Verbal task alternation in Parkinson's disease patients: 1 -- Verbal task alternation in Parkinson's disease patients: 2 -- Double dissociations -- Conclusion -- References -- Author Index -- Subject Index -- Volume 03 -- Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Original Title Page -- Original Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Introduction -- Chapter 1: Writing Systems and Reading Processes -- Chapter 2: Lexical Access in Japanese -- Chapter 3: Can Surface Dyslexia Occur in Japanese? -- Chapter 4: Arbitrariness and Double Articulation in Writing -- Chapter 5: Writing Systems and Reading Disorders.

Chapter 6: The Serbo-Croatian Orthography Constrains the Reader to a Phonologically Analytic Strategy.

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.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.