Visual Factors in Reading

This collection of essays examines how our visual and language systems interact in relationship to reading.

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• Addresses four important questions concerning the role of vision in reading
  
• Presents recent findings from neuroimaging literature along with important recent work concerning how letters and letter strings are processed
  
• Investigates what constraints the visual system and eye movement control set on visual word recognition
  
• Discusses the role of the left and right visual field, together with the right and left hemispheres in visual word recognition
  
• Evaluates what information the brain computes when we read a word questions the contribution of the visual system on reading disability