The team of the Center for Language and Brain conducted a study at a school in Nizhny Novgorod

From April 15 to 23 in Nizhny Novgorod, members of the Center for Language and Brain conducted a study among pupils in grades 2 and 4.

From April 15 to 23, the research group of the Center for Language and Brain (Anastasia Lopukhina, Anastasiia Kaprielova, Vladislava Staroverova and Olga Vedenina) conducted a study in second and fourth-grade student of School №131 in Nizhny Novgorod. The staff of the Center investigated the development of reading skills in children using a series of behavioural tests and eye-tracking techniques. Learn more about the study.

All the children took part in an eye-tracker experiment while silent reading. Participants` task was to read a set of 30 sentences from a computer screen and answer two-choice comprehension questions after some sentences. All students also passed one task for evaluating complex phonological skills and one task for evaluating rapid automatic naming (orthographic skills). Additionally, the laboratory staff measured reading speed while reading aloud and reading comprehension, hearing screening, and the level of nonverbal intelligence in all participants.

65 students were tested.

According to the results of the study, all the parents received personal reports on their children's reading skills compared to the typically developing children and on the state of cognitive functions critical for reading assimilation.

Anastasia Lopukhina, Research Fellow of Center for Language and Brain, gave a lecture "When and How Children Learn the Language: Experimental Data" for students of linguistics at the HSE University in Nizhny Novgorod.

Center for Language and Brain thanks School №131 for fruitful scientific cooperation, and the participants and their parents for participating in the study!