Ladislao Salmerón, Lalo

 

 

 

 

 

  

 

Associate Professor
Department of Developmental and Educational Psychology
University of Valencia
Avda. Blasco Ibáñez, 21
46010 Valencia, Spain
ladislao.salmeron [at] valencia.edu
Short CV

Qualifications:
2006, PhD. Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Granada
2004, Fulbright graduate student, Institute of Cognitive Science, University of Colorado at Boulder
2000, BS in Psychology, Complutense University of Madrid

Research interests:
I work in the research group ‘Comprehension and learning from text’ directed by Dr. Vidal-Abarca at the University of Valencia on the following topics:
- Reading strategies in complex reading tasks (hypertext, task oriented reading).
- Eye-movements and hypertext comprehension.
- Applications of Latent Semantic Analysis to educational technology.

Selected publications:

Salmerón, L. (2011). ¿Por qué realizar un examen mejora nuestro aprendizaje? Lecciones científicas y educativas del efecto del test. Ciencia Cognitiva: Revista Electrónica de Divulgación. [WEB]

Salmerón, L., & García, V. (2011). Reading skills and children's navigation strategies in hypertext. Computers in Human Behaviour, 27, 1143–1151. [PDF]

Vidal-Abarca, E., Martínez, T., Salmerón, L., Cerdán, R., Gilabert, R., Gil, L., Mañá, A., Llorens, A., & Ferris, R. (2011). Recording online processes in task-oriented reading with Read&Answer. Behavior Research Methods, 43, 179–192. [PDF]

Bråten, I., Strømsø, H., & Salmerón, L. (2011). Trust and mistrust when students read multiple information sources about climate change. Learning and Instruction, 21, 180-192.

Vidal-Abarca, E., Salmerón, L., & Mañá, A. (2011). Individual differences in task-oriented reading. In M.T. McCrudden, J. P. Magliano, & G. Schraw (Eds.), Text relevance and learning from text. Greenwich, CT: Information Age Publishing.
 
Salmerón, L., Kintsch, W. & Kintsch, E. (2010). Self-regulation and link selection strategies in hypertext. Discourse Processes, 47, 175–211. [PDF]

Salmerón, L., Gil, L., Bråten, I. & Strømsø, H. (2010). Comprehension effects of signalling relationships between documents in search engines. Computers in Human Behavior, 26, 419-426. [PDF]

Salmerón, L., Baccino, T., Cañas, J.J., Madrid, R. I., & Fajardo, I. (2009). Do graphical overviews facilitate or hinder comprehension in hypertext? Computers & Education, 53, 1308-1319. [PDF]

Fajardo, I., Vigo, M. & Salmerón, L. (2009). Technology for supporting Web information search and learning in Sign Language. Interacting with Computers, 21, 243-256.

Fajardo, I., Cañas, J.J., Salmerón, L. & Abascal, J. (2009). Information structure and practice as facilitators of deaf users’ navigation in textual Websites. Behaviour and Information Technology, 28, 87-97. [PDF]

Salmerón, L., Arizo, S., García, V., Vidal-Abarca, E., Gilabert, R., Ruzafa, M. & Llacer, E. (2008). Automated essay grading considering dissimilarity from incorrect responses. Presentation at the International Technology, Education and Development Conference 2008, Valencia (Spain).
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Baccino, T., Salmerón, L. & Cañas, J.J. (2008). La lecture des hypertextes. In A. Tricot & A. Chevalier (Eds.) Ergonomie des documents ergonomiques. Paris: PUF.

Salmerón, L., Baccino, T. & Cañas, J. (2006). How prior knowledge and text coherence affect eye fixations in hypertext overviews. In R. Sun & N. Miyake (Ed.), Proceedings of the 28th Annual Conference of the Cognitive Science Society (pp. 715-719). Hillsdale NJ: L awrence Erlbaum Associates. [PDF]

León, J. A., Escudero, I., Olmos, R., Cañas, J. J. & Salmerón, L. (2006). Assessing short summaries with human judgments procedure and latent semantic analysis in narrative and expository texts. Behavior Research Methods, 38, 616–627. [PDF]

Salmerón, L., Kintsch, W. & Cañas, J. J. (2006). Reading strategies and prior knowledge in learning with hypertext. Memory & Cognition, 34, 1157–1171. [PDF]

Fajardo, I., Cañas, J.J., Salmerón, L. & Abascal, J. (2006).
Improving deaf users’ accessibility in hypertext information retrieval: are graphical interfaces useful for them? Behaviour and Information Technology, 25, 455-467. [PDF]

Salmerón, L., Cañas, J.J., Kintsch, W. & Fajardo, I. (2005). Reading strategies and hypertext comprehension. Discourse Processes, 40, 171-191. [PDF]

Salmerón, L., Cañas, J.J. & Fajardo, I. (2005). Are expert users’ always better searchers? Interaction of expertise and semantic grouping in hypertext search tasks. Behaviour and Information Technology, 24, 471-475. [PDF]

Salmerón, L., Fajardo, I. & Cañas, J.J. (2003). Las estrategias de navegación reflejan la adquisición de conocimiento de los usuarios. Ponencia presentada en el 4º Congreso Internacional de Interacción Persona-Ordenador, Vigo (España). [PDF]

 

 

     

 

Last update: 18th March 2011