Benjamin Katz and Jessica Hering present at 2014 Eastern Psychological Association conference
Psychology major Benjamin Katz (鈥17) and occupational studies major and psychology minor Jessica Hering (鈥15) recently presented research they are conducting with Jennifer Stiegler-Balfour, Ph.D., assistant professor, Department of Psychology, at the 2014 Eastern Psychological Association Conference in Boston.
The poster presentation, titled 鈥淔actors that influence less-skilled readers鈥 ability to monitor global coherence鈥 examined how individual reading levels influence the ability to name a probe as well as integrate distant text information. The results showed that even though less-skilled readers often activate necessary information they do not seem to integrate the information. These results provide preliminary evidence that text modification could have an impact on readers鈥 levels of coherence.