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Area of Science:

  • Cognitive psychology
  • Developmental psychology
  • Neuroscience of reading

Background:

  • Reading involves left-dominant attentional orienting and sequential processing.
  • Lexicality influences attentional processes: words are processed globally, nonwords sequentially.
  • Understanding the development of these attentional processes is crucial for reading acquisition.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To evaluate the developmental trajectory of attentional orienting processes during reading acquisition in children.
  • To investigate how lexicality affects attentional processes in beginning readers.
  • To identify potential attentional difficulties that may impede reading development.

Main Methods:

  • Two experiments were conducted with 6-, 7-, and 9-year-old children.
  • A target detection task involved identifying letters or nonletters within five-character strings.
  • Target positions varied (second/left vs. fourth/right) to assess attentional orienting.

Main Results:

  • Left nonletter target advantage observed at age 6; left letter target advantage at age 7.
  • In 6-year-olds, only good readers showed a left letter target advantage; others favored the right.
  • The lexicality effect on attentional processes developed gradually up to the fourth year of reading.

Conclusions:

  • Dominant leftward attentional orienting for reading is not fully developed before the second year of reading instruction.
  • Beginning readers may struggle to inhibit a right visual field bias in linguistic tasks.
  • The study introduces a valuable method for assessing attentional difficulties in reading acquisition.