Required Readings

Topic 1:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias

Massaro, D.W. (1989). Experimental Psychology: An Information Processing Approach. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Chapter 5. The Scientific Process.

Topics 2, 3 and 4:

Golinkoff, R., and K. Hirsh-Pasek. 2008. How toddlers learn verbs. Trends in Cognitive Science (12)397–403.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language

Infant Vision: Birth to 24 Months of Age. http://www.aoa.org/ x9420.xml. Accessed 17 December 2011.

Scholz, B. C., and G. K. Pullum. 2006. Irrational nativist exuberance. In Contemporary Debates in Cognitive Science, ed. Robert Stainton, pp. 59–80. Oxford: Basil Blackwell.

Werker, J. F., Yeung, H. H., & Yoshida, K. A. (2012). How Do Infants Become Experts at Native-Speech Perception? Current Directions in Psychological Science, 21, 221-226.

Topic 5:

Massaro, D. W. (2012b). Speech Perception and Reading: Two Parallel Modes of Understanding Language and Implications for Acquiring Literacy Naturally. American Journal Psychology, 125, 307-320.

Massaro, D. W., Cohen, M. M., Tabain, M., Beskow,  J., & Clark, R. (2012). Animated Speech: Research Progress and Applications. In G. Bailly, P. Perrier & E. Vatikiotis-Bateson (Eds.) Audiovisual Speech Processing. (pp. 309-345). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Topic 6:

Beddinghaus, T. 2010. Top 5 Milestones in Vision Development.

http://vision.about. com/od/childrensvision/tp/vision_develop.htm

. Accessed May 29, 2011.

Hopson, J. (2012). Infant Intelligentsia: Can Babies Learn to Read? And Should They? Pacific Standard. http://www.psmag.com/education/infant-intelligentsia-46349/

Infant Vision: Birth to 24 Months of Age. http://www.aoa.org/ x9420.xml. Accessed 17 December 2011.

Kwon, M-Y., Legge, G.E. & Dubbels, B. (2007). Developmental changes in the visual span for reading. Vision Research, 47, 2889-2900.

Massaro, D. W. (2012). Acquiring Literacy Naturally: Behavioral science and technology could empower preschool children to learn to read naturally without instruction, American Scientist, 100, 324-333.

Sakai, K. L. 2005. Language acquisition and brain development. Science 310(4)815–819.

Topic 7:

Massaro, D.W. (1989). Experimental Psychology: An Information Processing Approach. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich. Chapter 20: Reading.

Massaro, D. W., and A. Jesse. 2005. The magic of reading: Too many influences for quick and easy explanations. In From Orthography to Pedagogy: Essays in Honor of Richard L. Venezky, eds. T. Trabasso, J. Sabatini, D. W. Massaro and R. C. Calfee, pp. 37–61. Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.

Topic 8:

Drop Out Rates (2011).

http://www.pajamaprogram.org/literacy.html

Education-Portal.com. (2010).

http://education-portal.com/articles/Illiteracy:_The_Downfall_of_American_Society.html. Accessed November 12, 2010.

Heckman, J. J. 2008. The Case for Investing in Disadvantaged Young Children.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literacy

http://literacy.kent.edu/Oasis/Pubs/econlit.htm

Laubach Literacy Statistics (2011).

http://www.policyalmanac.org/education/archive/literacy.shtml

Accessed June 2, 2011.

Topic 9:

Goldin-Meadow, S. & Mayberry, R. I. (2001). How do profoundly deaf children learn to read?  Learning Disabilities Research and Practice (Special issues: Emergent and early literacy: Current status and research directions), 16, 221-228.

Massaro, D.W. (2006). Embodied Agents in Language Learning for Children with Language Challenges. In K. Miesenberger, J. Klaus, W. Zagler, & A. Karshmer (Eds.), Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Computers Helping People with Special Needs, ICCHP 2006 (pp.809-816). University of Linz, Austria. Berlin, Germany: Springer

Topic 10:

HUD (2011). Head Up Display. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HUD_%28video_gaming%29. http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052702303610504577418181348485336.html. Accessed November 22, 2011).

Massaro, D. W. (2011a). Method And System For Acquisition Of Literacy. Patent Application Number 13/253,335, October 5, 2011.

The Diamond Age: Or, A Young Lady’s Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson. Bantam Spectra.