ArticlePsicologia, reflexao e critica : revista semestral do Departamento de Psicologia da UFRGS2022
Reading digital- versus print-easy texts: a study with university students who prefer digital sources.
Article in Psicologia, reflexao e critica : revista semestral do Departamento de Psicologia da UFRGS, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.
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- An investigation of the effects of different text formats on middle school students' reading comprehension performance.PloS one · 2025Trial
- Academic Reading Format Preferences Among Syrian Medical Students: A Cross-Institutional Survey.Advances in medical education and practice · 2026Article
- Meaning in life as a protective factor against depression.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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Abstract
The transition from on-paper to on-screen reading seems to make it necessary to raise some considerations, as a greater attentional effort has been claimed for print texts than digital ones. Not surprisingly, most university students prefer this digital medium. This research aims to examine reading times by contextualizing this phenomenon into two processes: namely, word recognition and reading comprehension task on paper and on screen. Thus, two different tasks-counterbalanced into digital and print mediums-were carried out per each participant with a preference for a digital medium: a reading comprehension task (RCT) and a lexical decision task (LDT) after reading a specific story. Participants were slower reading print texts and no statistically significant differences were found in RCT accuracy. This result suggests that the task required more cognitive resources under the print medium for those with a worse comprehension performance in reading, and a more conservative pattern in digital RCT for those with a better performance.
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