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Giving theories of reading a sporting chance

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2012

David C. Plaut
David C. Plaut*
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Departments of Psychology and Computer Science, and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890. plaut@cmu.edu http://www.cnbc.cmu.edu/~plaut
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Abstract

The search for a universal theory of reading is misguided. Instead, theories should articulate general principles of neural computation that interact with language-specific learning environments to explain the full diversity of observed reading-related phenomena across the world's languages.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 35 , Issue 5 , October 2012 , pp. 301 - 302
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012 

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