Barbara Carretti

Abstract The Music Ensemble dataset is a large-scale, cross-national database that provides detailed information about the musical, cognitive, personality, and demographic profiles of young adult musicians and nonmusicians. Data were collected from 1438 participants (aged 18–30) across thirty-five research sites in Europe, North America, South America, and Australia.

1 INTRODUCTION Reading strategically with an intentional and goal-directed approach is essential for comprehension and learning. Research has documented the positive relation between strategic processing and reading performance and, in particular, the quality of strategy use (Leopold & Leutner, 2015; Parkinson & Dinsmore, 2018). For today's students, especially in higher education, reading on the screen of a digital device for learning tasks is very common.

Original Article Text reading speed in a language with a shallow orthography benefits less from comprehension as reading ability matures Barbara Carretti Corresponding Author E-mail address: barbara.carretti@unipd.it https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5147-7544 Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Italy Correspondence should be addressed to Barbara Carretti, Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Via Venezia 8, 35131 Padova, Italy (email: barbara.carretti@unipd.it ).