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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Educational Psychology

Background:

  • Fluent reading is a key educational milestone with varied attainment.
  • Language factors like rapid automatized naming (RAN) and phonological awareness are known predictors of reading fluency.
  • The role of visual orthographic processing in reading fluency, beyond phonology, remains unclear.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the contribution of visual orthographic processing to reading fluency in children.
  • To examine the relationship between rapid automatized naming (RAN) and reading fluency.
  • To determine if specific visual processing of letter pairs (bigrams) is associated with reading fluency.

Main Methods:

  • Tested 68 primary school children on word and passage reading fluency tasks.
  • Administered a rapid automatized naming (RAN) task to assess naming speed.
  • Used a visual search task with letters and bigrams to evaluate visual orthographic processing.

Main Results:

  • Rapid automatized naming (RAN) scores strongly correlated with reading fluency.
  • Reading fluency showed a specific association with processing upright bigrams in visual search.
  • This association was linked to enhanced letter discrimination and reduced letter interaction within bigrams.

Conclusions:

  • Fluent reading involves specialized visual processing of letter combinations (bigrams).
  • Visual orthographic skills, particularly bigram processing, contribute to reading fluency beyond phonological factors.
  • Findings suggest that efficient visual processing of letter sequences is a component of fluent reading development.