Descripción del proyecto
Relación entre la atención visoespacial y la lectura
La lectura es un proceso cognitivo complejo que conlleva actividades mentales conscientes. Implica la descodificación de símbolos para deducir su significado y requiere memoria, concentración y atención. El proyecto ROAR, financiado con fondos europeos, está adoptando un enfoque interdisciplinario para comprender el papel de la atención en el proceso de lectura. Investigará cómo la atención se distribuye a lo largo del campo visual durante la lectura y cómo se utiliza para descifrar la información lingüística recibida. ROAR empleará electroencefalografías y técnicas de rastreo ocular. Además, probará una interfaz de lectura recién desarrollada que facilita el reconocimiento de palabras reduciendo la interferencia de las palabras adyacentes. Los hallazgos de la investigación ayudarán a tratar trastornos de lectura como la dislexia.
Objetivo
Reading is undoubtedly one of the most important cognitive skills in modern societies; yet, despite decades of reading research, some critical issues remain poorly understood. Given that the reading process is cognitively multi-faceted (involving linguistic processing, oculo-motor processing, memory and attention), getting to understand the reading process in full is by definition an interdisciplinary endeavour.
Therefore, striking an interdisciplinary alliance between the fields of reading and attention, this project's mission is to increase understanding of the role of attention in reading (ROAR). Specifically, this project aims to answer the question of how attention is distributed across the visual field during reading, and how attention is used to organize incoming linguistic information. Moreover, this project offers a novel attention-based perspective on reading problems and dyslexia, along with a practical application to help remedy such problems. In short, getting to grips with how attention operates in reading may be key to solving several long-standing questions.
This project comprises state-of-the-art electro-encephalography and eye-tracking techniques that will provide novel means to investigate attention in reading. Moreover, a recently developed reading interface, geared at facilitating word recognition by reducing interference from surrounding words, will be upgraded and tested with dyslexic readers. Thus, this project is perfectly placed in the Goldilocks zone between fundamental research and practical applicability.
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MSCA-IF - Marie Skłodowska-Curie Individual Fellowships (IF)Coordinador
1081 HV Amsterdam
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