The fully updated eighth edition of Cognitive Psychology: A Student's Handbook provides
comprehensive yet accessible coverage of all the key areas in the field ranging from visual …

Acquired dyslexia offers a unique window on to the nature of the cognitive and neural
architecture supporting skilled reading. This paper provides an integrative overview of …

Learning to read is foundational for literacy development, yet many children in primary
school fail to become efficient readers despite normal intelligence and schooling. This …

We investigated the phonological and surface subtypes of developmental dyslexia in light of
competing predictions made by two computational models of single word reading, the Dual …

Reading involves the rapid extraction of sound and meaning from print through a
cooperative division of labor between phonological and lexical–semantic processes …

Connectionist theories of language propose that written language deficits arise as a result of
damage to semantic and phonological systems that also support spoken language …

Alexia is common in the context of aphasia. It is widely agreed that damage to phonological
and semantic systems not specific to reading causes co-morbid alexia and aphasia. Studies …

Individuals with agrammatic Broca's aphasia experience difficulty when processing
reversible non‐canonical sentences. Different accounts have been proposed to explain this …

Unlike the ability to speak, which has presumably evolved over hundreds of thousands of
years, the ability to read is a relatively recent development that is dependent upon both the …

Abstract Woollams, Lambon Ralph, Plaut, and Patterson (2007) reported detailed data on
reading in 51 cases of semantic dementia. They simulated some aspects of these data using …