There is intense public interest in questions surrounding how children learn to read and how
they can best be taught. Research in psychological science has provided answers to many …

A defining feature of language lies in its capacity to represent meaning across oral and
written forms. Morphemes, the smallest units of meaning in a language, are the fundamental …

A Map to the Magic of Reading Stop for a moment and wonder: what's happening in your
brain right now—as you read this paragraph? How much do you know about the …

In the present theoretical note we examine how different learning constraints, thought to be
involved in optimizing the map** of print to meaning during reading acquisition, might …

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 …

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 …

It is common in the cognitive neuroscience literature to explain differences in activation in
terms of differences in the “efficiency” of neural function. I argue here that this usage of the …

The scientific study of reading has taught us much about the beginnings of reading in
childhood, with clear evidence that the gateway to reading opens when children are able to …

This chapter describes a model that accounts for various phenomena related to
morphological processing in skilled reading and reading acquisition. The model implements …

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