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Shuwen Deng, Cui Ding, David R. Reich, Paul Prasse + 1 more
The way our eyes move while reading provides valuable insights into both the reader's cognitive processes and the properties of the text. In particular, eye-tracking-while-reading data has shown to be highly beneficial in various technological applications, such as enhancing and interpreting language models and…
Fei Wang, Zhaosheng Luo, Ying Miao, Shuting Zhou + 1 more
To meet the growing demands for competency-based and personalized instruction in high school English reading, this study investigates a quantitative approach to modeling learning pathways and progressions. Traditional assessments often fail to capture students’ fine-grained cognitive differences and provide limited…
Andrea N. Burgess, Sarah S. Hughes-Berheim, Laurie E. Cutting
Existing neurocognitive reading models highlight a left-lateralized brain network supporting word- to discourse-level processing, but they largely overlook emotion. Although emotion-related brain regions are active during discourse processing, the role of arousal (i.e., emotional intensity) remains underexplored. Prior…
Vicky He, Mangor Pedersen, David N. Vaughan, Heath R. Pardoe + 4 more
Reading is supported by rapid and flexible coordination of neural activity across distributed brain regions. We have previously shown that left fusiform gyrus (FusG) provides a bridge flexibly linking the visual form analysis required for reading with the language system. Here, we investigate the dynamic organisation…
Miguel Martinez-Zaldivar, Yongning Lei, Garikoitz Lerma-Usabiaga
Reading selectively recruits specialized cortical patches within the left ventral occipitotemporal cortex (vOTC), such as the visual word form area (VWFA). Under the framework of the interactive account of word recognition, these neural responses emerge from dynamic, bidirectional loops where top-down linguistic…
Bahaa Madi Tarabya, Asaid Khateb
While research on the predictors of reading and reading comprehension is extensive in child and in some adult populations, particularly in alphabetic languages, few studies have examined such factors among Arabic-speaking adults. This study examined the extent to which the same linguistic and cognitive predictors…
Hwang, Seonjeong, Kim, Hyounghun + 2 more
Estimating the cognitive complexity of reading comprehension (RC) items is crucial for assessing item difficulty before it is administered to learners. Unlike syntactic and semantic features, such as passage length or semantic similarity between options, cognitive features that arise during answer reasoning are not…
Patrick Haller, Cui Ding, Maja Stegenwallner‐Schütz, David R. Reich + 3 more
Psycholinguistic theories traditionally assume similar cognitive mechanisms across different speakers. However, more recently, researchers have begun to recognize the need to consider individual differences when explaining human cognition. An increasing number of studies have investigated how individual differences…
Özden Erkan Oğul, Fatma Aydın, Gülsüm Uzer, Kıvanç Kök + 6 more
Aim The aim of this study was to investigate the prospective relationship between cognitive abilities assessed at the beginning of the academic year and reading skills acquired by the end of the academic year, including reading speed and reading comprehension, and to examine the predictive value of baseline cognitive…
Keane Zhang, Varshini Chinta, Raj Sanjay Shah, Sashank Varma
Anaphors are expressions that refer to other expressions, called antecedents. The process of connecting the two is called resolution. Cognitive science has identified multiple factors that affect the speed and success of anaphor resolution, including discourse structure, situation-model properties, and semantic…
Xinyi Yan, Yingyi Zhang, Chengzhi Zhang
Microblogging platforms generate massive amounts of short, noisy, and dispersed user content, making automatic keyphrase extraction (AKE) an important but challenging task. Prior studies have used eye-tracking signals to improve microblog-based AKE because such signals reflect readers' attention to salient words.…
Sendy Caffarra, Brendan Costello, Noemi Fariña, Jon Andoni Duñabeitia + 1 more
The cognitive factors that enable us to be proficient readers can greatly vary across individuals. The case of skilled deaf readers is emblematic as it shows that high reading performances can be achieved even when lifelong acoustic experience is absent or minimal. Here we present a set of experiments investigating how…
Vered Markovich, Tami Katzir, Shoshi Dorfberger
Previous research has linked inattentive symptom expression to reading difficulties, primarily in clinically referred samples or using indirect academic indicators. The present study examines attentional variability in a nonreferred community-based school sample with no clinical diagnoses or referrals, using…
Liu Mengxing, Shiya Wang, Carmen Vidaurre, Sara Guediche + 2 more
Language, a uniquely human higher-order cognitive function, has traditionally been attributed to cortical mechanisms with limited attention given to subcortical contributions. Recent advances in non-invasive neuroimaging have revealed that thalamic activity can be modulated by attention and task demands. Moreover…
Yanbei Jiang, Xueqi Ma, Shu Liu, Sarah Erfani + 4 more
Despite excelling on multimodal benchmarks, vision–language models (VLMs) largely remain a black box. In this paper, we propose a novel interpretability framework to systematically analyze the internal mechanisms of VLMs, focusing on the functional roles of attention heads in multimodal reasoning. To this end, we…
Marko Živanović, Jovana Bjekić, Saša R. Filipović
Human cognitive abilities depend on flexible coordination across distributed cognitive control systems within the frontoparietal network, yet the causal architecture linking executive functions (EFs) to higher cognition remains debated. We combined psychometric modeling and neuromodulation to test causal contributions…
Xiaoyan Wu, Finn Rabe, Peizheng Wu, Victoria Edkins + 7 more
Cognitive disorganization is a core disturbance across the psychosis spectrum, characterized by difficulties integrating perceptual information into coherent representations. How such disturbances affect the construction of internal cognitive maps remains unclear. A key question is whether these maps emerge from visual…