This volume sets forth an excellent overview of cutting-edge research in reading andlanguage processing and illuminates many of the controversial issues related to humancognition. Readers will find, as an example, apt commentaries on the tension betweenconnectionist modeling and the antecedent symbolic processing, and the subsequent efforts ofresearchers to resolve paradigmatic conflicts. As a result, several hybrid models, incorporatingelements of a symbolic system and an activation-based connectionist mechanism, haveemerged. Similarly, the logic and value of relevant research procedures are debated.Methodological scrutiny, in fact, is a prominent theme throughout the volume. Among otherthings, a variety of online measures, such as technologically enhanced procedures foreye-movement tracking, pupillometry monitoring, and moving-window display techniques, arediscussed.