Visual word recognition is a multifaceted process involving the rapid and efficient extraction of letter identities and their spatial arrangement. Integral to this field is the exploration of how the ...

Word recognition behavior can be fine-tuned by experience and practice, according to a new study by Ian Hargreaves and colleagues from the University of Calgary in Canada. Their work shows, for the ...

The architecture and processes underlying visual word recognition represent some of the most intricate systems in human cognition. The seemingly simple act of reading a word involves not only a ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract In skilled adult readers, reading words is generally assumed to rapidly and automatically activate the phonological code. In adults with ...

Using direct neural recordings from the visual word form area, researchers were able to see words that patients read as the patients read them. Reading is a relatively modern and uniquely human skill.

A new study confirms what Scrabble players have long suspected: We really are smarter than the rest of you. Researchers at the University of Calgary have discovered that competitive Scrabble players ...

A new study offers evidence that the brain's inferotemporal cortex, which is specialized to perform object recognition, has been repurposed for a key component of reading called orthographic ...

2 experiments were conducted to examine those differences in word-recognition processes between third-grade and college students which are specifically related to the children's relatively greater use ...