Abstract: The SCHNAPP Spelling Test is a novel screening instrument to identify at-risk children with poor spelling abilities in German at the beginning of primary school. Although originally developed as a computerized test to be ...
Abstract. In Germany, 7.5 Million individuals between 18 and 64 years are considered to be functionally illiterate (Grotlüschen & Riekmann, 2012). Functional illiterates have only rudimentary literacy skills ...
Gender Differences in Reading, Writing, and CalculationBackground: Cognitive gender differences and their origins are a hotly debated subject. Strict nature-nurture dichotomies concerning causal roles of gender differences are not useful for their ...
The writing superiority effect: Language production processes in the verbal diagnosis of knowledgeAbstract. Language production processes are frequently involved in the diagnosis of knowledge, particulary with exams. However, the relation between the ...
Self-disclosure when writing about stressful life-eventsAbstract.Theoretical background: Research initiated by Pennebaker and collegues on self-disclosure and the beneficial influence of emotional expression, when writing about past stressful events, ...
Communicating expert knowledge to a lay addressee in writing is a demanding task that requires a great deal of mental effort. This article reports on a study in which experts were prompted to reflect either on a text they had produced (content focus ...
The dual-task paradigm recently played a major role in understanding the role of working memory in writing. By reviewing recent findings in this field of research, this article highlights how the use of the dual-task technique allowed studying the ...
Two experiments examined how visuospatial processing engaged during text composition intervenes in memory for word location. Experiment 1 showed that in contrast to participants who performed a spatial task concurrently with composing a text, participants ...
Abstract. We investigated whether orthographic information influences speech production. We used a non-color-word version of the Stroop task in which participants had to ignore the presented words but name their ink color instead. In two ...