NPR Education Correspondent Claudio Sanchez interviews Mark Seidenberg. They discuss the gap between how teachers are trained to teach reading, and the latest scientific research on reading. The Gap Between The Science On Kids And Reading, And How It Is Taught
Abstract Can some black-white differences in reading achievement be traced to differences in language background? Many African American children speak a dialect that differs from the mainstream dialect emphasized in school. We examined how use of alternative dialects affects decoding, an important component of early reading and marker of reading…
Abstract Functional neuroimaging and Parallel Distributed Processing (PDP) theory, both introduced to cognitive science in the 1980s, led to influential research programmes that have proceeded in parallel with little mutual influence. The PDP approach advanced specific claims about the nature of neural representations that, perhaps surprisingly, have gone largely untested…
