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Record W4386452608 · doi:10.33424/futurum421

How we read: the neuroscience behind literacy

2023· article· en· W4386452608 on OpenAlexaboutno aff
Jacqueline Cummine

Bibliographic record

Venuenot available
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldNeuroscience
TopicNeuroscience, Education and Cognitive Function
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsLiteracyPsychologyNeuroscienceCognitive scienceCognitive psychologyPedagogy

Abstract

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nderstanding and using written language is a highly sophisticated skill, and humans are the only animals able to do so to any degree of complexity.Most of us can process series of symbols with near-infinite possible combinations, and understand what they signify, all in milliseconds.However, humans have only been reading for around 5,000 years, which is not enough time for this skill to evolve -which means we read using parts of our brains that likely evolved for something else.Understanding how we read is important, particularly to provide solutions for those with lower reading and writing abilities."Literacy skills have a profound impact on a person's life," says Dr Jacqueline Cummine, a professor at the Faculty of Rehabilitation Medicine -Communication Science and Disorders at the University of Alberta."Even subtle Reading and writing are essential skills for modern life, but how often do you think about how your brain processes written information?Based at the University of Alberta in Canada, Professor Jacqueline Cummine is helping decode how we read -in particular, the important role of our senses -and using these findings to help people who struggle with literacy skills.

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How this classification was reachedexpand

Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.002
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesnone
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Bench or experimental · Consensus signal: none
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.791
Threshold uncertainty score0.901

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.002
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.002
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0010.001
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0000.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.071
GPT teacher head0.320
Teacher spread0.249 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it

Classification

machine, unvalidated

Machine predicted; a candidate call from one teacher head, not a consensus.

The models applied no category: nothing in the taxonomy fit this work.
Study designBench or experimental
Domainnot available
GenreEmpirical

How this classification was reached, model by model and score by score, is at the end of the page under "How this classification was reached".

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