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Direct linkOlkoniemi, Henri; Ranta, Henri; Kaakinen, Johanna K. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2016
The present study examined individual differences in the processing of different forms of figurative language. Sixty participants read sarcastic, metaphorical, and literal sentences embedded in story contexts while their eye movements were recorded, and responded to a text memory and an inference question after each story. Individual differences…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Individual Differences, Figurative Language, Eye Movements
Häikiö, Tuomo; Heikkilä, Timo T.; Kaakinen, Johanna K. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 2018
Syllabification by hyphens (e.g., hy-phen-a-tion) is a standard procedure in early Finnish reading instruction. However, recent findings indicate that hyphenation slows down children's reading already during the first grade (Häikiö, Hyönä, & Bertram, 2015, 2016). In the present study, it was examined whether this slowdown is indicative of…
Descriptors: Syllables, Finno Ugric Languages, Reading Instruction, Grade 2
