1st Edition

Executive Control Processes in Reading

Edited By B. K. Britton, S. M. Glynn Copyright 1987
    328 Pages
    by Routledge

    328 Pages
    by Routledge

    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.

    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.

    Biography

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