The EZ Reader model (Reichle et al. 1998; 1999) provides a theoretical framework for
understanding how word identification, visual processing, attention, and oculomotor control …

How is reading, a cultural invention, coded by neural populations in the human brain? The
neural code for written words must be abstract, because we can recognize words regardless …

In the last decade, reading research has seen a paradigmatic shift. A new wave of
computational models of orthographic processing that offer various forms of noisy position or …

At least 3 different types of computational model have been shown to account for various
facets of both normal and impaired single word reading:(a) the connectionist triangle …

According to Bayesian theories in psychology and neuroscience, minds and brains are
(near) optimal in solving a wide range of tasks. We challenge this view and argue that more …

It is well known that there exist preferred landing positions for eye fixations in visual word
recognition. However, the existence of preferred landing positions in face recognition is less …

Orthographic processing is an open problem. Decades of visual word recognition research
have fueled the development of various theoretical frameworks. Although these frameworks …

Abstract Models of letter position coding for printed word perception are presented and
examined in the light of recent data obtained using the masked prime paradigm. These data …

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 …

We report four experiments investigating the effects of repeated and transposed letters in
orthographic processing. Orthographically related primes were formed by removing one …