ABSTRACT
The perceptual and cognitive operations performed during fluent reading cannot conceivably be under direct executive control throughout the entire course of their functioning. A much more reasonable assumption is that a number of these operations carry on outside the bounds of awareness and produce results or outputs that eventually are used by centrally controlled processes. In this article I consider the implications of this assumption for (a) the memory representation of specific reading episodes, and (b) the role played by such memory representations when material is read on multiple occasions. Special consideration will be given to a form of memory for reading episodes that appears to operate outside the domain of executive control processes.
