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In this research, the relation between oral reading and readers’ psychophysiological conditions was examined in a total of 16 university students (aged between 18 and 24). The students were asked to read an English passage aloud for about three minutes. Fingertip pulse waves were measured for use as biological data before and after reading the passage. The measured values were subjected to chaos analysis and the Lyapunov exponents calculated. It was found that there was significant positive correlation between oral reading and readers’ psychophysiological conditions. The results showed that Lyapunov exponents became higher after the readers read the passage orally.
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Futaba, T. (2014). The Relation between Oral Reading and Readers’ Psychophysiological Conditions: Through Nonlinear Chaos Analysis of Pulse Waves. In: Pham, T.D., Ichikawa, K., Oyama-Higa, M., Coomans, D., Jiang, X. (eds) Biomedical Informatics and Technology. ACBIT 2013. Communications in Computer and Information Science, vol 404. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-54121-6_25
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