Reading digital- versus print-easy texts: a study with university students who prefer digital sources
Psicol. reflex. crit
; 35: 10, 2022. tab, graf
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| LILACS, INDEXPSI
| ID: biblio-1387027
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BR574.2
ABSTRACT
The transition from on-paper to on-screen reading seems to make it necessary to raise some considerations, as a greater attentional efort has been claimed for print texts than digital ones. Not surprisingly, most university students prefer this digital medium. This research aims to examine reading times by contextualizing this phenomenon into two processes namely, word recognition and reading comprehension task on paper and on screen. Thus, two diferent taskscounterbalanced into digital and print mediumswere carried out per each participant with a preference for a digital medium a reading comprehension task (RCT) and a lexical decision task (LDT) after reading a specifc story. Participants were slower reading print texts and no statistically signifcant diferences were found in RCT accuracy. This result suggests that the task required more cognitive resources under the print medium for those with a worse comprehension performance in reading, and a more conservative pattern in digital RCT for those with a better performance.
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Índice:
LILACS
Assunto principal:
Impressão
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Leitura
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Computadores
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Internet
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Compreensão
Limite:
Adolescent
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Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
Idioma:
En
Revista:
Psicol. reflex. crit
Assunto da revista:
PSICOLOGIA
Ano de publicação:
2022
Tipo de documento:
Article