Virginia Holmes

Syntactic parsing: In search of the garden path

VM Holmes

Book Chapter  |  2016

The parsing principle of minimal attachment predicts that a noun phrase occurring after verbs such as "report" or "indicate" will ..

Visual-attentional span and lexical decision in skilled adult readers

Virginia M Holmes, Georgia Dawson

Journal article  |  2014  |  JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN READING

The goal of the study was to examine the association between visual-attentional span and lexical decision in skilled adult readers..

Erratum to Phonological awareness and reading proficiency in adults with profound deafness (Reading Psychology, (2014), 35, 4, (357-396))

B Furlonger, VM Holmes, FW Rickards

Journal article  |  2014  |  Reading Psychology

PHONOLOGICAL AWARENESS AND READING PROFICIENCY IN ADULTS WITH PROFOUND DEAFNESS

Brett Furlonger, Virginia M Holmes, Field W Rickards

Journal article  |  2014  |  READING PSYCHOLOGY

This study investigated differences in the phonological knowledge and reading skill of deaf adults using three experimental condit..

Font-Specific Memory: More than Meets the Eye?

SD Goldinger, A Tamiko, HM Kleider, VM Holmes

Book Chapter  |  2012

Viewed from the perspective of psycholinguistics, words are fairly magical entities, representing the psychological level at which..

Adult word recognition and visual sequential memory

VM Holmes

Journal article  |  2012  |  READING AND WRITING

Two experiments were conducted investigating the role of visual sequential memory skill in the word recognition efficiency of unde..

Bottom-up processing and reading comprehension in experienced adult readers

Virginia M Holmes

Journal article  |  2009  |  JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN READING

Previous research has indicated a weak to moderate role for word recognition skill in contributing to reading comprehension effici..

Unexpectedly Poor Spelling and Phonological-Processing Skill

Virginia M Holmes, Lisa Quinn

Journal article  |  2009  |  SCIENTIFIC STUDIES OF READING

This study investigated the phonological skills of university students who were unexpectedly poor spellers relative to their word ..

Orthographic processing and visual sequential memory in unexpectedly poor spellers

Virginia M Holmes, Aisling M Malone, Holly Redenbach

Journal article  |  2008  |  JOURNAL OF RESEARCH IN READING

Does unexpectedly poor spelling in adults result from inferior visual sequential memory? In one experiment, unexpectedly poor spel..

Rote memory and arithmetic fact processing

Virginia M Holmes, Jennifer McGregor

Journal article  |  2007  |  MEMORY & COGNITION

The goal of the study was to examine the part played by skill in memorizing arbitrary sequences in the efficiency with which norma..