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Publications

Current Projects

 

Scholarly Book in Preparation

Kruk, R. S. (Ed.) (under contract). Routledge international handbook of visual processes in reading and reading disabilities.Abingdon, UK: Routledge/Taylor & Francis.

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Refereed Articles in Preparation (student names underlined)

  • Marcoux, D., Desroches, A., & Kruk, R. S. (in preparation). The impacts of language proficiency on cross-language activation in bilingual children.

  • Hildebrand, K., Zinger, K., Negash, A., Tess, V., & Kruk, R. S. (in preparation). The efficiency of visual attention resolution in 7- and 11-year-old good and poor readers.

  • Madziak, R., Kruk, R. S., & Desroches, A. M. (in preparation). Electrophysiological indices of morphological processing in reading-impaired children.​

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Recent Publications

  • Zinger, K., & Kruk, R. S. (2024). Awareness and analysis: How morphological processes predict growth in early reading comprehension. Frontiers of Language Sciences, 3. DOI=10.3389/flang.2024.1367637

  • Koffman, A., Flaten, E., Desroches, A. M., & Kruk, R. S. (2023). Neural correlates of visual attention and short-term memory in struggling readers during a visual masking task. Developmental Neuropsychology, 48(2), 65-80. DOI: 10.1080/87565641.2023.2177856

  • Rosenberg, L., & Kruk, R. (2022). Coarse or fine? Grain-size and morpho-orthographic segmentation in struggling readers. Annals of Dyslexia, 72, 28–55. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11881-021-00240-2 

  • Sukovieff, A., & Kruk, R. S. (2021). Reading difficulty and socio-emotional adjustment: Internalizing patterns depend on age of identification. Cogent Education, 8(1). https://doi.org/10.1080/2331186X.2021.1910162

  • Forest, E.,Kruk, R., & Desroches, A. (2021). Masks are memorable: ERP evidence for visual short-term memory and individuation in object substitution masking. Visual Cognition, 29(2), 125-141. https://doi.org/10.1080/13506285.2021.1882630

  • Kruk, R. S., & Luther Ruban, C. (2018). Beyond phonology: Visual processes predict growth in alphanumeric and non-alphanumeric rapid naming in poor-early readers. Journal of Learning Disabilities, 51(1), 18– 31. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1177/0022219416678406

  • Kruk, R. S., Mayer, J., & Funk, L. (2014). The predictive relations between non-alphanumeric rapid naming and growth in regular and irregular word decoding in at-risk readers. Journal of Research in Reading, 37,17–35. DOI: 10.1111/jrir.12005 (Nominated best article of the year.)

  • Kruk, R. S., & Bergman, K.(2013). The reciprocal relationships between morphological awareness and reading. Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 114, 10-34. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.jecp.2012.09.014

  • Kruk, R. S., Prentice, S., & Moen, K. B. (2013). Early childhood education and care (ECEC) and reading acquisition in at-risk readers: Does quantity matter? Canadian Journal of Behavioural Science/Revue canadienne des sciences du comportement, 45, 49–63. doi: 10.1037/a0022706 

  • Kruk R. S., & Reynolds, K. A. A. (2012). French Immersion experience and reading skill development in at-risk readers. Journal of Child Language, 39, 580-610.  doi:10.1017/S0305000911000201

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Notes and Published Conference Abstracts 

  • Kruk, R., & Flaten, E. (2017). Visual attention and visual memory in struggling readers: Are anomalies revealed in ERP N2pc and SPCN [Abstract]? Journal of Vision, 17(10), 691. doi: 10.1167/17.10.691

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Recent Conferences and Invited Presentations

  • Blair, M., Kruk, R., & Desroches, A. (July 2025). The first-letter advantage and event-related potentials in children and adults. Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading. Calgary, AB.

  • Desroches, A., Ruest, D., & Kruk, R. (July 2025). Examining access to morpho-semantic information during reading in bilingual children. Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading. Calgary, AB.

  • Kruk, R., Pierce, S., & Desroches. A. (July 2025). Sooner or later: Early emergence of the first-letter advantage in kindergarten typical but not struggling readers. Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading. Calgary, AB.

  • Kruk, R., Koffman, A., & Desroches, A. (July 2024). How does neural oscillatory coupling during morphological processing differentiate children with and without reading difficulty? Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading. Copenhagen, DK.

  • Monsigneur, M., Kruk, R. S., & Desroches, A. (November, 2023). Seeing the forest for the trees: Local preference modulates N1 and P3 ERPs for local and global stimuli. Poster presentation at the Psychonomic Society 64th Annual Meeting. San Francisco, CA.

  • Pierce, S. & Kruk, R. S. (July, 2022). The first-letter advantage: What are the age-related differences? Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading.

  • Tess, V. & Kruk, R. S. (June, 2022). The Navon Task as a measure of attention resolution efficiency in children and adults. Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Vision Sciences Society.

  • Madziak, R., Kruk, R. S., & Desroches, A. M. (2021). Electrophysiological indices of morphological processing in reading-impaired children. Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading. [Online]

  • Silla, F., & Kruk, R. (July, 2019). Age- and reading-ability differences in visual attention and visual attention span.Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading. Toronto, ON.

  • Hildebrand, K.D.,& Kruk, R. (July, 2018). Visual attention resolution precision and efficiency as indicators of reading ability: A developmental study. Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading. Brighton, UK.

  • Rosenberg, L., & Kruk, R. (July, 2018). When is a corner like corn? Morpho-orthographic segmenting skills in children who struggle with reading. Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading. Brighton, UK.

  • Zhou, J.,& Kruk, R. (July, 2018). English-Chinese bilingual children’s reading: Evidence for course-grain strategy preference. Poster presentation at the annual meeting of the Society for the Scientific Study of Reading. Brighton, UK.

  • Kruk, R., Flaten, E., & Madziak, R. (June, 2018). How do visual anomalies and orthographic difficulties in poor readers appear in ERP waveforms? Invited symposium presentation at the 8th Scientific Meeting of the Manitoba Neuroscience Network, Winnipeg, MB.

  • Kruk, R. S. (March 2, 2018). Beyond the phonological processing deficit: Do visual anomalies cause reading disability? Paper presented at the Department of Psychology Colloquium, University of Winnipeg, Winnipeg, MB.​

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