Reading Science Geeks
readinggeeks.bsky.social
Reading Science Geeks
@readinggeeks.bsky.social
We’re a group of Sydney-based researchers who are passionate about reading science!

See https://www.readingsciencegeeks.com/ for our projects, publication, and more importantly, upcoming research talks and discussions (every fornightly in a hybrid mode)!
Congratulations to @adambull1.bsky.social, who just published his first #cogsci2025 paper on “Oscillating Echoes: Primary Memory in MINERVA 2”!

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August 1, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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New paper! We show that eye movements during normal reading (no extra task) are effective at predicting reading comprehension as measured by recall. Both early and late eye-movement measures are key. This research was led by the amazing Diane Mézière.

ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
<em>Reading Research Quarterly</em> | ILA Literacy Journal | Wiley Online Library
Recent research on the use of eye movements to predict performance on reading comprehension tasks suggests that while eye movements may be used to measure comprehension, the relationship between eye-...
ila.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
May 22, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Our recent publication on the morpheme-semantic priming of #Chinese and #English compound words is now out doi.org/10.1080/2327...!

It shows readers access morpheme meaning early in Chinese; the effect appears later in English, only when primes are visible, and in transparent compounds!
June 24, 2025 at 11:32 PM
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Students are the pride and joy of EPC and APCV. Congratulations to this year’s student presentation award winners!
June 21, 2025 at 12:06 AM
Congratulations to Samantha Curtis for winning the Student Prize!
Great talk by student Samantha Curtis from Macquarie Uni on how the Stroop interference effect can be eliminated by splitting the onset of the word and its colour. @expsyanz.bsky.social
June 20, 2025 at 7:48 AM
Samantha Curtis is talking about Priming the distractor reduces the Stroop interference effect by uncoupling the color and word! @expsyanz.bsky.social
June 20, 2025 at 2:05 AM
A great reading and language session at @expsyanz.bsky.social!
June 19, 2025 at 12:37 AM