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Visual word recognition models should also be constrained by knowledge about the visual system

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2012

Pablo Gomez  and
Sarah Silins
Pablo Gomez
Affiliation:
Psychology Department, DePaul University, Chicago, IL 60614. pgomez1@depaul.eduhttp://condor.depaul.edu/~pgomez1/WNPL
Sarah Silins
Affiliation:
Law School, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL 60611. ssilins@gmail.com
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Abstract

Frost's article advocates for universal models of reading and critiques recent models that concentrate in what has been described as “cracking the orthographic code.” Although the challenge to develop models that can account for word recognition beyond Indo-European languages is welcomed, we argue that reading models should also be constrained by general principles of visual processing and object recognition.

Type
Open Peer Commentary
Information
Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 35 , Issue 5 , October 2012 , pp. 287
Copyright
Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012 

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