Athanassios Protopapas
protopap.bsky.social
Athanassios Protopapas
@protopap.bsky.social
Professor in Special Needs Education; trying to understand reading fluency from a cognitive and developmental perspective.
When naming visual sequences, efficiency calls for parallel processing of successive items but this leads to interference that threatens performance. To manage the load, constant monitoring allows dynamic adjustment of parallelism, seen in eye-voice span and articulation.
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June 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Reposted by Athanassios Protopapas
What I wish I knew: 33 thoughts for early career researchers
Reflections I wish someone had shared with me early in my research career.

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What I wish I knew: 33 thoughts for early career researchers
Thirty three reflections I wish someone had shared with me early in my research career.
predirections.substack.com
April 29, 2025 at 3:08 AM
Skilled readers use information from upcoming words to boost efficiency, but at what cost? We discovered that nearby words interfere with lexical activation of the fixated word, calling for a more nuanced approach to the role of preview in fluent reading. dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jm...
April 23, 2025 at 5:19 PM