title: Phonological and semantic priming in children with reading disability.
abstract: Lexical priming was assessed in children with reading disability (RD) and in age-matched controls (M= 11.5 years), in visual and auditory lexical decision tasks. In the visual task, children with RD were found to have deficits in semantic (SHIP-BOAT), phonological/graphemic (GOAT-BOAT), and combined (FLOAT-BOAT) priming. The same pattern of semantic priming deficits also occurred in auditory lexical decisions, suggesting that the semantic deficits are not confined to reading. Children with RD also showed less priming than reading-age matched controls, suggesting that their priming deficits are not simply due to lower reading level but are due to the reading disability in particular. These semantic deficits may contribute to both the word reading and the comprehension problems seen in children with RD.
authors: Institute for Behavioral Genetics, University of Colorado, UCB 447, Boulder, CO 80309-0447, USA. betjeman@colorado.edu
authors: Rebecca S
authors: RS
authors: Betjemann
authors: Janice M
authors: JM
authors: Keenan
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D004410:Dyslexia / Q000175:diagnosis*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010700:Phonetics; D021641:Recognition, Psychology; D012660:Semantics; D012720:Severity of Illness Index