Research Overview
Understanding, or comprehension, is the basis of all thought and of all
social interactions. It is thus the most important and most central
aspect of human cognition. The work in my Reading & Language Lab at
the University of Denver over the past 30 years has been focused on
trying to "comprehend comprehension" by 1) analyzing it into component
skills, 2) examining methods for assessing comprehension, 3) assessing
how comprehension skills develop, 4) evaluating whether there are specific
deficits in those who have comprehensions problems, and 5) determining the
genetic and environmental contributions to comprehension deficits by
studying twins. Many of our current projects are funded by the National
Institutes of Health and by the University of Denver’s PROF program;
they are being conducted in collaboration with the Institute for
Behavioral Genetics as part of the Colorado Learning and Disabilities
Research Center.
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