Participants comprehended expository texts better than narrative texts, and comprehension performance did not correlate with print exposure¶

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Evidence · 1 study (2 entries) · associational r1 · q2
Currency · newest study 2025 · not yet checked against its sources · not reviewed by a person

Subclaims¶

q2 i? Post-reading comprehension accuracy was higher for expository texts (M = .917) than narrative texts (M = .829), a significant paired difference. → Song 2025 q2 i? Comprehension performance did not significantly correlate with print exposure quantity (Spearman rho = -.109, p = .508). → Song 2025 (2)

Evidence¶

Song 2025¶

Song, M., Li, L., He, D. & Cai, Q. (2025). Reading experience reveals shared and idiosyncratic neural patterns during text comprehension. npj Science of Learning. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-025-00390-7

q2 · i? · associational · r1

Paired-samples t-test on manually scored 24-item multiple-choice comprehension performance from 39 participants, six items per text. The article reports expository accuracy of .917 versus narrative accuracy of .829, with the paired difference significant at p < .001.

"Participants’ performance for expository texts (M = .917, SD = .063) was better (p < .001) than that for narrative texts (M = .829, SD = .098)."

Song 2025 (2)¶

Song, M., Li, L., He, D. & Cai, Q. (2025). Reading experience reveals shared and idiosyncratic neural patterns during text comprehension. npj Science of Learning. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41539-025-00390-7

q2 · i? · associational · r1

Spearman rank correlation between comprehension accuracy and overall tART print exposure in the 39-participant analysis sample; the printed coefficient is rho = -.109 with p = .508, so no significant association was detected. Equivalence was not tested.

"The comprehension performance did not significantly correlate with print exposure quantity (Spearman rho = -.109, p = .508)."

Discussion¶

Learner Variables¶

• Home Learning Environment — predictor: learners who differ on it differ in outcomes

Related Claims¶

• Higher print exposure is associated with more idiosyncratic neural patterns during expository reading, primarily in frontoparietal control network regions — related
• Lifetime exposure to narrative fiction correlates with ToM and empathy, but correlational designs preclude causal conclusions — related
• Pictorial narratives are comprehended better than textual narratives across all education and age groups — related
• Shared topic distributions of reading experience predict shared neural activity in DMN regions during narrative reading, but only among high-exposure readers — related
• Participants reported greater print exposure in fiction topics than non-fiction topics across the whole sample and both exposure groups — related
• Print exposure measured with the tART correlates strongly with self-reported topic-specific reading frequency — related