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Theories of reading should predict reading speed

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 August 2012

Denis G. Pelli ,
Susana T. L. Chung  and
Gordon E. Legge
Denis G. Pelli
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology and Center for Neural Science, New York University, New York, NY 10003. denis.pelli@nyu.edu http://psych.nyu.edu/pelli/
Susana T. L. Chung
Affiliation:
School of Optometry, University of California, Berkeley, CA 94720-2020. s.chung@berkeley.edu http://vision.berkeley.edu/selab/
Gordon E. Legge
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455. legge@umn.edu http://vision.psych.umn.edu/users/legge/
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Abstract

Reading speed matters in most real-world contexts, and it is a robust and easy aspect of reading to measure. Theories of reading should account for speed.

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Behavioral and Brain Sciences , Volume 35 , Issue 5 , October 2012 , pp. 297 - 298
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2012 

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