Evidence of a highly specific relationship between rapid automatic naming of digits and text-reading speed

• Published in: Brain and language Vol. 93; no. 2; pp. 152 - 159
• Main Authors: Savage, Robert, Frederickson, Norah
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: San Diego, CA Elsevier Inc 01.05.2005; Elsevier
• Subjects: Automatism - psychology; Biological and medical sciences; Child; Comprehension; Dyslexia - diagnosis; Dyslexia - psychology; Economically Disadvantaged; England (Reading); Female; Fundamental and applied biological sciences. Psychology; Humans; Language; Male; Pattern Recognition, Visual; Phonetics; Production and perception of written language; Psycholinguistics; Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry; Psychology. Psychophysiology; Reaction Time; Reading; Reading Fluency; Reading Rate; Reference Values; Semantics; Verbal Behavior; Vocabulary; United Kingdom (Reading); Human; Numeral; Reading; Language; Cognition; Text; Naming; Velocity

This paper explores the specificity of the relationship between rapid automatic naming and reading fluency. Reading accuracy, rate, and fluency was measured among a sample of 67 children, the majority of whom were very poor readers. Regression analyses revealed that phonological processing tasks pre...