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Role of Visual Attention in Developmental Dyslexia
No full textAttention is a neurocognitive process composed by subprocesses located in several brain areas and controlled by specific neurotransmitters (Petersen & Posner, 2012). This process aims to select relevant information and modulates sensory processing, perception, memory, and learning. This selection of information processing – based on the combination of perceptual noise exclusion and signal enhancement – is fundamental in developing fine object representations in the brain (see Corbetta & Shulman, 2011; Petersen & Posner, 2012; Roelfsema, van Ooyen, & Watanabe, 2010, for reviews).
Alerting and orienting are the two main processes involved in reading acquisition. Alerting is defined as the multisensory attentional process that increases performance during tasks (Petersen & Posner, 2012), producing a phasic change in alertness (e.g., Ronconi et al., 2016). The alerting system can already be measured in the infant brain (e.g., Ronconi, Facoetti et al., 2014)
Supplemental Material, Supplementary_File_2 - Brain event-related potentials to phoneme contrasts and their correlation to reading skills in school-age children
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Supplemental Material, Supplementary_File_2 for Brain event-related potentials to phoneme contrasts and their correlation to reading skills in school-age children by Urs Maurer, Catherine McBride, Jarmo Hämäläinen, Nicole Landi, Otto Loberg, Kaisa Lohvansuu, Kenneth Pugh, and Paavo H. T. Leppänen in International Journal of Behavioral Development
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Supplemental Material, Supplementary_File_1 - Brain event-related potentials to phoneme contrasts and their correlation to reading skills in school-age children
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Supplemental Material, Supplementary_File_1 for Brain event-related potentials to phoneme contrasts and their correlation to reading skills in school-age children by Urs Maurer, Catherine McBride, Jarmo Hämäläinen, Nicole Landi, Otto Loberg, Kaisa Lohvansuu, Kenneth Pugh, and Paavo H. T. Leppänen in International Journal of Behavioral Development
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Interview with Robert Gordon
No full textThis interview with Robert Gordon, Illinois Tech architecture alumnus, architect, planner, artist, and author, was conducted on June 6, 2017 by Ralph Pugh and Adam Strohm
“High Crimes and Misdemeanors”: A Constitutional Critique of the Commander-in-Chief
No full textThe Impeachment Clause of the U.S. Constitution has been subject to competing interpretations. Whether impeachment is understood as a legal or a political process will have a great impact on future impeachment proceedings in the United States.
Author information: Emma Pugh is a senior at Samford University in Birmingham, AL. She is studying English and Political Science and is interested in how the two disciplines intersect. She completed this paper prior to the 2019 impeachment inquiry
Introduction: Developmental dyslexia - A cross-linguistic perspective
No full textItem does not contain fulltextReading involves decoding written language in order to understand it. In learning to read, children implicitly learn how their writing system encodes their spoken language and how they can decode printed words into spoken words to derive meaning (see Verhoeven & Perfetti, 2017). However, many children around the world encounter problems learning to read, fail to develop fluent decoding, and are thus diagnosed as dyslexic. A large body of research supports the conclusion that a phonological deficit underlies most developmental dyslexia. Much of the existing evidence, however, is based on studies of children learning to read in English. It is important to note that English has an opaque orthography that creates challenges beyond those facing children who read more transparent orthographies. In recent years, the research base for developmental dyslexia has broadened across languages, allowing the question of differences and similarities across languages and writing systems to receive attention
Developmental dyslexia across languages and writing systems: The big picture
No full textItem does not contain fulltextIn this final chapter, we provide our view on some of the main conclusions that can be drawn from the research on developmental dyslexia across languages. The overarching questions concern how our understanding of reading disability benefits from considering a broad array of languages. If there is a universal biological basis of developmental dyslexia, there should be shared observations on reading disability across languages and writing systems. Or, so one might expect. It is possible, however, that observations of differences in the manifestations of dyslexia - whether subtyping within a language (e.g., phonological vs surface dyslexia) or comparisons across languages (e.g., alphabetic vs morphosyllabic) - reflect some unitary cause or combinations of multiple causes
A salutation to the Britains, to call them from the many things, to the one thing needful, for the saving of their souls; especially, to the poor unlearned tradesmen, plowmen and shepherds, those that are of a low degree like my self, this in order to direct you to know God and Christ, the only wise God, which is life eternal, and to learn of him, that you may become wiser than your teachers. / By Ellis Pugh. ; Translated from the British language by Rowland Ellis, ; revis'd and corrected by David Lloyd. ; [Three lines from Jeremiah]
No full textxv, [1], 222, [2] p. ; 16 cm. (8vo)Signatures: pi^8 A-O^8 (O8 blank).An account of the author."--p. iii-vii."The testimony of the Monthly Meeting at Gwynedd, in the county of Philadelphia, in Pennsylvania, concerning our friend, Ellis Pugh, the author of the following treatise."--p. viii-xv
The Pugh Controlled Convergence Method: Model-Based Evaluation and Implications for Design Theory
No full textThis paper evaluates the Pugh Controlled Convergence method and its relationship to recent developments in design theory. Computer executable models are proposed simulating a team of people involved in iterated cycles of evaluation, ideation, and investigation. The models suggest that: 1) convergence of the set of design concepts is facilitated by the selection of a strong datum concept; 2) iterated use of an evaluation matrix can facilitate convergence of expert opinion, especially if used to plan investigations conducted between matrix runs; and 3) ideation stimulated by the Pugh matrices can provide large benefits both by improving the set of alternatives and by facilitating convergence. As a basis of comparison, alternatives to Pugh's methods were assessed such as using a single summary criterion or using a Borda count. These models suggest that Pugh's method, under a substantial range of assumptions, results in better design outcomes than those from these alternative procedures
FIGURE 16. Bathyphysa abyssorum Studer, 1878b. A in A history of the sub-order Cystonectae (Hydrozoa: Siphonophorae)
No full textFIGURE 16. Bathyphysa abyssorum Studer, 1878b. A. Part of siphosomal stem, with "attached" appendages; B. Two gastrozooids; C. Bract-like structure; D. & E. Reconstructions of whole specimen; D. according to Studer (1878); E. as suggested by present author. From Studer (1978)b, Pl. III, figs. 27 (A), 38–39 (B), 25 (C), 28 (D).Published as part of Pugh, P. R., 2019, A history of the sub-order Cystonectae (Hydrozoa: Siphonophorae), pp. 1-91 in Zootaxa 4669 (1) on page 35, DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4669.1.1, http://zenodo.org/record/377337
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