An Individual Differences Examination of the Relation between Reading Processes and Comprehension.

ABSTRACT: Previous research has generally focused on understanding individual variation in either on-line processing or off-line comprehension even though some theories explicitly link difficulty in processing to comprehension problems. The goal of the current study was to examine individual variation in performance both during on-line and off-line reading measures. A battery of psycholinguistic and cognitive tests was administered to community college and university students. In addition, participants read texts in an eye-tracker and answered comprehension questions about them. Multi-level modeling was used to determine the individual-difference factors that modulated the relation between word-level characteristics (e.g., length, frequency, surprisal) and fixation durations. The analyses showed tha

SUBMITTER: Long DL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7959334 | biostudies-literature | 2021

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature