Description

This collection of essays examines how our visual and language systems interact in relationship to reading.

• Addresses four important questions concerning the role of vision in reading
• Presents recent findings from neuroimaging literature along with important recent work concerning how letters and letter strings are processed
• Investigates what constraints the visual system and eye movement control set on visual word recognition
• Discusses the role of the left and right visual field, together with the right and left hemispheres in visual word recognition
• Evaluates what information the brain computes when we read a word questions the contribution of the visual system on reading disability

Editor: Cornelissen, Piers, Editor: Singleton, Chris

Topic: Psychology
Media: Book
ISBN: 1405160918
Language: English
Pages: 188