Researchers of the HSE Centre for Language and Brain have investigated the impact of both auditory and visual noise on semantic processing during reading to determine if it results in a more ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Natalie Wexler is an education writer focusing on literacy. When students can’t understand what they’re reading, it may be because ...

There’s no point in reading something if you don’t take some of it with you. This simple exercise, when used with diligent note taking, can help you retain more of everything you read. On his blog, ...

This study examined the effect of sentence-combining and kernel-identification practice on the syntactic component of sixth graders' reading comprehension, as measured by a cloze instrument developed ...

Psycholinguists from the Centre for Language and Brain, HSE University, have found that to predict semantic relations between words when reading, older adults use their knowledge of the world instead ...

Most people can't look at this sentence without being overwhelmed by the urge to read it. That's according to psychologist and dyslexia specialist Lidia Stanton who claims we have all been brainwashed ...

40 preschool children ranging in age from 3 to 5 years were required to illustrate the meaning of reversible passive sentences in which noun animacy was systematically varied. There were 2 main ...