Bibliothèque de L'IMIST/CNRST

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Ch. 1. Traces of Print Along the Visual Pathway / Tatjana A. Nazir -- Ch. 2. When Words with Higher-frequency Neighbours Become Words with No Higher-frequency Neighbour (Or How to Undress the Neighbourhood Frequency Effect) / Daniel Zagar and Stephanie Mathey -- Ch. 3. Words Likely to Activate Many Lexical Candidates Are Granted an Advantage: Evidence from Within-word Eye Movement / Joel Pynte -- Ch. 4. Processing of Finnish Compound Words in Reading / Jukka Hyona and Alexander Pollatsek -- Ch. 5. Perceiving Spatial Attributes of Print / Martin H. Fischer -- Ch. 6. Saccadic Inhibition and Gaze Contingent Research Paradigm / Eyal M. Reingold and Dave M. Stampe -- Commentary on Section 1. From Print to Meaning via Words? / Jonathan Grainger.

This book is divided into five sections dealing with various fundamental issues in current research: attention, information processing and eye movement control; the role of phonology in reading; syntax and discourse processing and computational models and simulations. Control and measurement of eye movements form a prominent theme in the book. A full understanding of the where and when of eye movement control is a prerequisite of any complete theory of reading, since it is precisely at this point that perceptual and cognitive processes interact. Amongst the 'hot topics' included are the relation between parafoveal and foveal visual processing of linguistic information, the role of phonology in fluent reading and the emergence of statistical 'tuning' approaches to sentence parsing. Also discussed in the book are three attempts to develop quantitative models of reading which represent a significant departure in theory-building and a quantum step in the maturation of reading research. Much of the work reported in the book was first presented at the 5th European Workshop on Language Comprehension organised in April 1998 which was held at the CNRS Luminy Campus, near Marseilles. All contributions summarise the state-of-the-art in the relevant areas of reading research.