Much evidence suggests complexity in cognitive and motor task performances [Gilden,
2001]. The present study builds upon this work, treating reading of text as a kind of complex …

Reading typically undergoes a qualitative shift around Grade 4, becoming more fluent and
silent, but there is no established measure for fluency in children's silent reading. The …

Reading speed is commonly used as an index of reading fluency. However, reading speed
is not a consistent predictor of text comprehension, when speed and comprehension are …

Nonlinear methods of fractal analysis and recurrence quantification analysis are becoming
more commonplace in the cognitive and behavioral sciences. These methods are illustrated …

This chapter illustrates nonlinear methods of data analyses for timeseries of reading times,
obtained from a self-paced reading task. We present reading data obtained from adult …

The process of connected text reading has received very little attention in contemporary
cognitive psychology. This lack of attention is in parts due to a research tradition that …

Reading research uses different tasks to investigate different levels of the reading process,
such as word recognition, syntactic parsing, or semantic integration. It seems to be tacitly …

The present study investigates the relation between the reading process and text
comprehension during naturalistic text reading. To that end, participants read easy and …

Despite the fact that reading is one of the most frequently studied topics in psychology,
cognitive science, and educational science, research on text reading has made only little …

This paper focuses on reading fluency by bilingual primary school students, and the relation
of text fluency to their reading comprehension. Group differences were examined in a cross …