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David L. Share

David L. Share

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Psychology

D-Index
48
Citations
15611
World Ranking
5812
National Ranking
50

Overview

David L. Share is affiliated with the University of Haifa in Israel. Their research primarily lies within the field of psychology, with a strong focus on developmental and educational psychology, statistics and probability, cognitive neuroscience, education, and experimental and cognitive psychology.

Their work addresses key topics such as reading and literacy development, cognitive and developmental aspects of mathematical skills, neurobiology of language and bilingualism, language development and disorders, visual and cognitive learning processes, hearing impairment and communication, and writing and handwriting education.

Frequent publication venues for their research include Reading and Writing, Reading Research Quarterly, Frontiers in Psychology, Brain Sciences, and Psychological Science.

Selected recent papers authored or coauthored by David L. Share include:

  • "Is the Science of Reading Just the Science of Reading English?" (2021, Reading Research Quarterly)
  • "Common Misconceptions about the Phonological Deficit Theory of Dyslexia" (2021, Brain Sciences)
  • "Keeping an Eye on Effort: A Pupillometric Investigation of Effort and Effortlessness in Visual Word Recognition" (2020, Psychological Science)
  • "A developmental study of eye movements in Hebrew word reading: the effects of word familiarity, word length, and reading proficiency" (2023, Frontiers in Psychology)
  • "Learning to Spell in Arabic: The Impact of Script-Specific Visual-Orthographic Features" (2020, Frontiers in Psychology)

David L. Share collaborates with several frequent coauthors, including Adi Shechter, Ravit Cohen-Mimran, Nirmala Vasudevan, Mithun Haridas, and Prema Nedungadi.

Best Publications

  • Phonological recoding and self-teaching: sine qua non of reading acquisition.

    David L. Share

  • On the Anglocentricities of current reading research and practice: the perils of overreliance on an "outlier" orthography.

    David L. Share

  • Sources of Individual Differences in Reading Acquisition.

    David L. Share;Anthony F. Jorm;Rod Maclean;Russell Matthews

  • Phonological Recoding and Orthographic Learning: A Direct Test of the Self-Teaching Hypothesis

    David L. Share

  • An invited article: Phonological recoding and reading acquisition

    Anthony F. Jorm;David L. Share

  • Orthographic learning at a glance: on the time course and developmental onset of self-teaching.

    David L. Share

  • Orthographic learning during reading: examining the role of self-teaching.

    Anne E. Cunningham;Kathryn E. Perry;Keith E. Stanovich;David L. Share

  • Evidence for Superior Orthographic Skills in Dyslexics

    Linda S Siegel;David Share;Esther Geva

  • Attention Deficit Disorder-Hyperactivity and Academic Failure: Which Comes First and What Should Be Treated?

    Rob McGEE;David L. Share

  • On the contribution of kindergarten writing to grade 1 literacy: A longitudinal study in Hebrew

    Evelyn Shatil;David L. Share;Iris Levin

  • Orthographic learning, phonological recoding, and self-teaching.

    David L Share

  • Word Recognition and Basic Cognitive Processes among Reading-Disabled and Normal Readers in Arabic.

    Salim Abu-Rabia;David Share;Maysaloon Said Mansour

  • Effects of listening to story reading on aspects of literacy acquisition in a diglossic situation.

    Dina Feitelson;Zahava Goldstein;Jihad Iraqi;David L. Share

  • Knowing letter names and learning letter sounds: a causal connection.

    David L. Share

  • The relationship between specific reading retardation, general reading backwardness and behavioural problems in a large sample of Dunedin boys: a longitudinal study from five to eleven years.

    Rob McGee;Sheila Williams;David L. Share;Jessie Anderson

  • Contamination Sensitivity in Young Children

    Michael Siegal;David L. Share

  • Learning to read and write in Hebrew.

    David Share;Iris Levin

  • Spelling as a self‐teaching mechanism in orthographic learning

    Daphna Shahar-Yames;David L. Share

  • Cognitive factors at school entry predictive of specific reading retardation and general reading backwardness: a research note.

    Anthony F. Jorm;David L. Share;Rod Maclean;R. Matthews

  • Behaviour problems in specific reading retarded and general reading backward children: a longitudinal study.

    Anthony F. Jorm;David L. Share;Rod Matthews;R. Maclean

Frequent Co-Authors

Anthony F. Jorm
Anthony F. Jorm University of Melbourne
Sheila M. Williams
Sheila M. Williams University of Otago
Iris Levin
Iris Levin Tel Aviv University
Terrie E. Moffitt
Terrie E. Moffitt Duke University
Esther Geva
Esther Geva University of Toronto
Linda S. Siegel
Linda S. Siegel University of British Columbia
Peter F. de Jong
Peter F. de Jong University of Amsterdam
Keith E. Stanovich
Keith E. Stanovich University of Toronto
Michael Siegal
Michael Siegal University of Sheffield

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