Different fields of research within the cognitive sciences have investigated basic processes
in reading, but progress has been hampered by limited cross-fertilization. We propose a …

Current theories of language comprehension posit that readers and listeners routinely try to
predict the meaning but also the visual or sound form of upcoming words. Whereas most …

We describe a functional architecture for word recognition that focuses on how orthographic
and phonological information cooperates in initial form‐based processing of printed word …

In this introduction to the special issue, I will first briefly summarise past research on
orthographic processing, describing some of the central areas of empirical investigation and …

I will describe how orthographic processing acts as a central interface between visual and
linguistic processing during reading, and as such can be considered to be the 'mid-level …

Stimuli are easier to process when context makes them predictable, but does context-based
facilitation arise from preactivation of a limited set of relatively probable upcoming stimuli …

Two very reliable influences on eye fixation durations in reading are word frequency, as
measured by corpus counts, and word predictability, as measured by cloze norming. Several …

Learning to read requires the acquisition of an efficient visual procedure for quickly
recognizing fine print. Thus, reading practice could induce a perceptual learning effect in …

Visual word recognition is a process that, both hierarchically and in parallel, draws on
different types of information ranging from perceptual to orthographic to semantic. A central …

Visual word recognition is commonly rapid and efficient, incorporating top–down predictive
processing mechanisms. Neuroimaging studies with face stimuli suggest that repetition …