Paired Associate Learning and Learning to Read

[Dick Schutz]

http://readoxford.org/guest-blog-paired ... g-to-read

One of the most important findings to come from studies of paired associate learning is that learning to read is not a reflection of general associative learning ability. Nonverbal associative learning (i.e., visual-visual) does not predict variations in reading ability. Additionally, children with dyslexia are not impaired in nonverbal paired associate learning. These findings illustrate that the ease or difficulty with which children learn to read is not a reflection of general learning capacity.

IFERI readers know that, but most people (including teachers and professors) don't.