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ICONIC MEMORY AND READING PERFORMANCE IN NINE‐YEAR‐OLD CHILDREN
Author(s) -
RIDING R. J.,
PUGH J. C.
Publication year - 1977
Publication title -
british journal of educational psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.557
H-Index - 95
eISSN - 2044-8279
pISSN - 0007-0998
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8279.1977.tb02338.x
Subject(s) - psychology , persistence (discontinuity) , reading (process) , fluency , icon , developmental psychology , test (biology) , audiology , cognitive psychology , linguistics , mathematics education , medicine , paleontology , philosophy , geotechnical engineering , computer science , engineering , biology , programming language
S ummary . 36 9‐year‐old children were given a test of image persistence in visual sensory (iconic) memory, and the Neale Analysis of Reading Ability. In the iconic memory test the subjects viewed a white disc in a tachistoscope and were required to state whether or not the disc disappeared for a short interval which ranged from 10 ms to 800 ms. The shortest disappearance perceived was taken as a measure of icon persistence. The reading test gave scores for fluency, accuracy and comprehension. All three measures of reading performance were found to be significantly related to icon persistence. Short and long image persistence resulted in a reading age on the accuracy score that was on average 1.75 years below that for moderate persistence.