Benjamin Katz and Jessica Hering present at 2014 Eastern Psychological Association conference

Psychology major Benjamin Katz (’17) and occupational studies major and psychology minor Jessica Hering (’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 “Factors that influence less-skilled readers’ ability to monitor global coherence” 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’ levels of coherence.

 

 

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