Visual Factors in ReadingISBN: 978-1-4051-6091-9
Paperback
188 pages
March 2007, Wiley-Blackwell
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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