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 …

The scientific study of reading has a rich history that spans disciplines from vision science to
linguistics, psychology, cognitive neuroscience, neurology, and education. The study of …

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 …

Current evidence suggests that morphologically complex words (eg, farmer) are
automatically segmented into their constituent morphemes (farm+ er) during reading, a …

The processing of letters within strings is challenging for beginning readers. Letter
identification is affected by visual similarity, loss of information with eccentricity and …

It is striking that visual attention, the process by which attentional resources are allocated in
the visual field so as to locally enhance visual perception, is a pervasive component of …

Individuals rapidly become sensitive to recurrent patterns present in the environment and
this occurs in many situations. However, evidence of a role for statistical learning of …

During visual word processing readers identify chunks of co-occurring letters and code for
their typical position within words. Using an artificial script, we examined whether these …

Word recognition occurs across two sensory modalities: auditory (spoken words) and visual
(written words). While each faces different challenges, they are often described in similar …

We have previously shown that readers use co-occurrence statistics to learn about the
presence and position of affix-like chunks in strings of pseudo-letters (Lelonkiewicz, Ktori & …