Psycholinguistics

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According to Statistics Canada (2005), over 15 million Canadians are unable to read at a level necessary to be successful at work and in day-to-day life. Little is known about how cognitive characteristics of readers affect success or failure of reading comprehension. Kupermans laboratory conducts large-scale studies on individual variability in word and text recognition, as found in an understudied non-clinical population of low-literacy young adults in Ontario. In the proposed research program, we will explore causes of reading difficulty at the levels of cognition and emotion, and aim to inform current methods of adult literacy teaching and learning.