ABSTRACT
Over the past two decades, more cognitive psychologists have paid more attention to the processes involved in visual word recognition than to almost any other subject in their field. The annals of cognitive psychology have thus burgeoned with papers on word recognition while work on other topics, many relating to other aspects of reading such as syntactic parsing or discourse memory, have been substantially less popular. Why has this been so? Has the work had any theoretical or practical success? And, why another book devoted to the topic now?
