Reading As a Perceptual Process

This text is divided into five sections dealing with various fundamental issues in current research: attention, information processing and eye movement control; the role of phonology in reading; syntax and discourse processing and computational models and simulations.

List of contents

Section and selected chapter headings: Visual Word Processing. Traces of print along the visual pathway (T.A. Nazir). Processing of Finnish compound words in reading (J. Hyönä, A. Pollatsek). Attention, Information Processing and Eye Movement Control. Relations between spatial and temporal aspects of eye movement control (R. Radach, D. Heller). Eye guidance and the saliency of word beginnings in reading text (W. Vonk et al.). Phonology in Reading. The assembly of phonology in Italian and English: consonants and vowels (L. Colombo). Do readers use phonological codes to activate word meanings? Evidence from eye movements (M. Daneman, E.M. Reingold). Syntax and Discourse Processing. Decoupling syntactic parsing from visual inspection: the case of relative clause attachment in French (J. Pynte, S. Colonna). Unrestricted race: a new model of syntactic ambiguity resolution (R.P.G. van Gompel et al.). Models and Simulations. Eye fixation durations in reading: models of frequency distributions (G.W. McConkie, B.P. Dyre). Subject index.

Product details

• Authors: A. (Psychology Department Kennedy, Alan Kennedy, Alan Heller Kennedy, KENNEDY ALAN HELLER D PYNTE J
• Assisted by: D. Heller (Editor), Heller D. (Editor), A. Kennedy (Editor), Kennedy A. (Editor), J. Pynte (Editor), Pynte J. (Editor), R. Radach (Editor), Ralph Radach (Editor), Radach Ralph (Editor)
• Publisher: ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 04.08.2000
• EAN: 9780080436425
• ISBN: 978-0-08-043642-5
• No. of pages: 772
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative linguistics; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Medicine > Non-clinical medicine; Literacy, MEDICAL / Neurology, LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Literacy, Neurology & clinical neurophysiology, Neurology and clinical neurophysiology, Phonetics, phonology