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Overview

Charles A. Perfetti is affiliated with the University of Pittsburgh in the United States. Their research contributions primarily span the field of Psychology, with a particular focus on Developmental and Educational Psychology, Cognitive Neuroscience, Education, Artificial Intelligence, and Experimental and Cognitive Psychology.

The scientist has published extensively on topics related to Reading and Literacy Development, Neurobiology of Language and Bilingualism, Second Language Acquisition and Learning, Writing and Handwriting Education, Text Readability and Simplification, Language Development and Disorders, and EFL/ESL Teaching and Learning.

Frequent coauthors who have collaborated with Perfetti include Lin Chen, Anne Helder, Ludo Verhoeven, Yi Xu, and Sonali Nag.

Publications often appear in well-established venues such as Language Cognition and Neuroscience, Journal of Experimental Psychology Learning Memory and Cognition, Annals of Dyslexia, Discourse Processes, and Behavior Research Methods.

Among recent papers by or involving Charles A. Perfetti are the following:

  • Universals in Learning to Read Across Languages and Writing Systems, 2021, Scientific Studies of Reading
  • Learning management system and course influences on student actions and learning experiences, 2020, Educational Technology Research and Development
  • A Lifespan fMRI Study of Neurodevelopment Associated with Reading Chinese, 2020, Cerebral Cortex
  • Character and child factors contribute to character recognition development among good and poor Chinese readers from grade 1 to 6, 2020, Annals of Dyslexia
  • Incremental Comprehension Examined in Event-related Potentials: Word-to-Text Integration and Structure Building, 2020, Discourse Processes

Best Publications

  • Reading Ability: Lexical Quality to Comprehension

    Charles Perfetti

  • Effects of Long-Term Vocabulary Instruction on Lexical Access and Reading Comprehension.

    Isabel L. Beck;Charles A. Perfetti;Margaret G. McKeown

  • The Acquisition of Reading Comprehension Skill

    Charles A. Perfetti;Nicole Landi;Jane Oakhill

  • Phonemic knowledge and learning to read are reciprocal: A longitudinal study of first grade children.

    Charles A. Perfetti;Isabel Beck;Laura C. Bell;Carol Hughes

  • Word Knowledge in a Theory of Reading Comprehension

    Charles Perfetti;Joseph Stafura

  • How Psychological Science Informs the Teaching of Reading

    Keith Rayner;Barbara R. Foorman;Charles A. Perfetti;David Pesetsky

  • The Representation Problem in Reading Acquisition

    Charles A. Perfetti

  • The lexical quality hypothesis

    Charles A. Perfetti;Lesley Hart

  • Relationship Between Single Word Decoding and Reading Comprehension Skill

    Charles A. Perfetti;Thomas Hogaboam

  • The Knowledge-Learning-Instruction Framework: Bridging the Science-Practice Chasm to Enhance Robust Student Learning.

    Kenneth R. Koedinger;Albert T. Corbett;Charles Perfetti

  • Cross-cultural effect on the brain revisited: Universal structures plus writing system variation

    Donald J. Bolger;Charles A. Perfetti;Walter Schneider

  • Biological abnormality of impaired reading is constrained by culture

    Wai Ting Siok;Charles A. Perfetti;Zhen Jin;Li Hai Tan;Li Hai Tan

  • Discourse Comprehension and Sources of Individual Differences.

    Charles A. Perfetti;Alan M. Lesgold

  • Reading depends on writing, in Chinese

    Li Hai Tan;John A. Spinks;Guinevere F. Eden;Charles A. Perfetti

  • The neural system underlying Chinese logograph reading.

    Li Hai Tan;Ho-Ling Anthony Liu;Charles A. Perfetti;John A. Spinks

  • The lexical constituency model: some implications of research on Chinese for general theories of reading.

    Charles A. Perfetti;Ying Liu;Li Hai Tan

  • The lexical basis of comprehension skill.

    Charles A. Perfetti;Lesley Hart

  • Phonemic activation during the first 40 ms of word identification: Evidence from backward masking and priming

    Charles A. Perfetti;Laura Bell

  • The Effects of Long-Term Vocabulary Instruction on Reading Comprehension: A Replication:

    Margaret G. McKeown;Isabel L. Beck;Richard C. Omanson;Charles A. Perfetti

  • Toward a theory of documents representation.

    Charles A. Perfetti;Jean-François Rouet;M. Anne Britt

Frequent Co-Authors

Li Hai Tan
Li Hai Tan Shenzhen University
Ludo Verhoeven
Ludo Verhoeven Radboud University
M. Anne Britt
M. Anne Britt Northern Illinois University
Julie A. Fiez
Julie A. Fiez University of Pittsburgh
Walter Schneider
Walter Schneider University of Pittsburgh
James R. Booth
James R. Booth Vanderbilt University
Susan R. Goldman
Susan R. Goldman University of Illinois at Chicago
Keith Rayner
Keith Rayner University of California, San Diego
Kenneth R. Pugh
Kenneth R. Pugh Haskins Laboratories
Michel Fayol
Michel Fayol University of Clermont Auvergne

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