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




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