Reading comprehension and imagery correlation in elementary school children

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Published: Aug 8, 2021
DOI: https://doi.org/10.17060/ijodaep.2021.n1.v2.2136
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reading comprehension imagery drawing discontinued texts text's base

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Jahaziel Molina del Río
Laboratorio de Neuropsicología Universidad de Guadalajara, Centro Universitario de los Valles. Ameca, Jalisco, México
Erica Lizeth Vargas Rivera
Laboratorio de Neuropsicología Universidad de Guadalajara, Centro Universitario de los Valles. Ameca, Jalisco, México
Víctor Hugo González Becerra
Centro de Investigación en Comportamiento y Salud Universidad de Guadalajara, Centro Universitario de los Valles. Ameca, Jalisco, México
Anaid Amira Villegas Ramírez
Centro de Investigación en Comportamiento y Salud Universidad de Guadalajara, Centro Universitario de los Valles. Ameca, Jalisco, México

Abstract

Reading comprehension required a multiple cognitive processes participation, one of those is the text mental representation, it could be linked with the verbal and nonverbal properties from the text, one of the nonverbal properties is the mental representation through images, knowing as imagery, this capacity has been linked with the draw abilities. This research pretend to characterized the reading comprehension and imagery relation in elementary school children. Reading comprehension as well imagery was evaluated in 21 children from 4° grade of elementary school. A moderate positive correlation among reading comprehension and human figure drawing was found, as well as among drawing and discontinued text comprehension, and a text based representation. We can conclude that a reading comprehension and imagery positive correlation in elementary school children exist.

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Molina del Río, J., Vargas Rivera, E. L., González Becerra, V. H., & Villegas Ramírez, A. A. (2021). Reading comprehension and imagery correlation in elementary school children. International Journal of Developmental and Educational Psychology. Revista INFAD De Psicología., 2(1), 371–384. https://doi.org/10.17060/ijodaep.2021.n1.v2.2136
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Vol. 2 No. 1 (2021): PSYCHOLOGY AND POSITIVE GROWTH. COPING WITH THE DIFFICULTY IN A MATURE WAY: THE RESPONSE TO COVID 19
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