Glaucoma, a leading cause of irreversible blindness, is characterized by the progressive loss of retinal ganglion cells (RGCs) and subsequent visual field defects. RGCs, as the final output neurons of the retina, perform key computations underpinning human pattern vision, such as contrast coding. Conventionally, glaucoma has been associated with pe...
Published in Frontiers in Psychology
Introduction Children born preterm are at increased risk for adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes. Music and reading activities in childhood could ameliorate these difficulties, as they have shown benefits on both neural and behavioral levels. However, only a few studies have assessed these potential benefits in preterm-born children. We investigate...
The article describes the course of a reading event with the participation of students of humanities studying Polish as a foreign language (PFL) at the Faculty of Philology of the University of Lodz in the academic year 2019/2020. This study is an attempt to gain insight into the glottodidactic process of reading Olga Tokarczuk’s story Professor An...
Published in Frontiers in Cognition
Interruptions are often pervasive and require attentional shifts from the primary task. Limited data are available on the factors influencing individuals' efficiency in resuming from interruptions during digital reading. The reported investigation—conducted using the InteRead dataset—examined whether individual differences in visuo-spatial working ...
Published in The Journal of social psychology
Nostalgia evoked through various experiences (e.g., scents, music) has been shown to enhance emotional well-being and reduce social pain. We propose that reading a familiar book similarly can elicit nostalgia, and provide emotional benefits through narrative transportation beyond that of reading a new book. We tested the relationship between readin...
Published in Frontiers in Psychology
Regression in the service of the ego is a unique phenomenon that often occurs within therapeutic settings. In the current study1, I show how it emerges within child therapy and how bibliotherapy manages to give it presence and thus to process it. The methodology that guided this study was based on a critical reading of psychoanalysis and bibliother...
This experimental study investigates the impact of ChatGPT-simplified authentic texts on university students’ reading comprehension, inferencing, and reading anxiety levels. A within-subjects design was employed, and 105 undergraduate English as a foreign language (EFL) students engaged in both original and ChatGPT-simplified text readings, serving...
Published in Frontiers in Psychology
Children’s reading engagement is associated with the quality of their reading experiences and outcomes; however, research to date has only examined children’s reading engagement within the context of traditional print books or digital texts. Augmented Reality represents a hybrid reading experience, where traditional paper books are augmented with d...
Published in Frontiers in Human Neuroscience
Several previous studies reported reduced leftward lateralization in blind participants’ samples compared to the sighted population. The origins of this difference remain unknown. Here, we tested whether functional lateralization is connected with the structural characteristics of white matter tracts [corpus callosum (CC), uncinate fasciculus (UF),...
Published in Frontiers in Psychology
Introduction Enhancing reading efficiency is of paramount importance in various academic, professional and clinical domains. Previous research, mostly from a single laboratory, has shown that externally imposed time constraints by means of text fading can enhance reading fluency in children and adults with varying reading abilities and in different...
