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The Handbook of Cognition provides a definitive synthesis of the most up-to-date and advanced work in cognitive psychology in a single volume. The editors have gathered together a team of world-leading researchers in specialist areas of the field, both traditional and `hot' new areas, to present a benchmark - in terms of theoretical insight and advances in methodology - of the discipline. This book contains a thorough overview of the most significant and current research in cognitive psychology that will serve this academic community like no other volume.
Chapter 12: Reading
It is clearly impossible to cover reading fully in a chapter of this length, as there are entire textbooks (Crowder & Wagner, 1992; Just & Carpenter, 1987; Rayner & Pollatsek, 1989) devoted to reading. The focus in this chapter is on the processes by which the visual information on the printed page is extracted by the visual system and turned into language, which is largely the study of how printed words are identified. Chapter 10 by Garnham in this volume fills in much of the rest of the story, as it is devoted to the more ‘global’ aspects of reading comprehension. In the process of discussing how words are identified in the context of reading, we shall also discuss, in some detail, how ...
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