| Yhteenveto: | Rapid automatized naming (RAN) is the capacity to retrieve and fluently
designate serially displayed stimuli, e.g. letters or objects. RAN, as a speeded
task, is correlated with processing speed and reaction times. RAN is a strong
predictor of reading skills in transparent orthographies and it has been found
that this association might be due to underlying attentional processes. The
Attention Network experiment (ANT) is the most common experiment
obtained for measuring the three subcomponents of attention (alerting,
orienting, inhibition). The purpose of this study is to examine whether the
reaction times in different visual stimuli and the subcomponents of attention
predict RAN performance as well as whether they moderate the relationship
between RAN and reading fluency.
This study obtains psychometric data from the eSeek project and an ANT
experiment conducted by Santhana Gopalan (2019; 2020). 166 participants
completed the psychometric tests and 115 of those participated in the ANT
experiment. Analysis was conducted using SPSS 26 and Pearson’s correlations,
hierarchical regression and moderation analysis were used to answer the
research questions.
This study showed that RAN predicts reading fluency and that gender acts as a
moderator in the relationship between RAN and reading fluency. Reaction
times were a significant predictor of RAN performance in both the letters and
the objects tasks and moderated RAN performance in objects, together with
gender. Orienting was found to predict and moderate RAN performance in the
letters task. Alerting and inhibition were a significant predictor of RAN
performance in objects.
The main results managed to clarify the connection between reading fluency,
RAN performance, reaction times and the subcomponents of attention. As this
topic has not been investigated before, it provided new insight in this matter.
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