A classification of models of visual word recognition is presented that facilitates formal
comparisons between models of different formats. In light of the theoretical contributions to …

Perception is described within a complex systems framework that includes several
constructs: resonance, attractors, subsymbols, and design principles. This framework was …

Semantic priming has been a focus of research in the cognitive sciences for more than thirty
years and is commonly used as a tool for investigating other aspects of perception and …

Recently, there have been a number of advances in technology, including in mobile devices,
globalization of companies, display technologies and healthcare, all of which require …

There have been several reports in the literature of faster visual lexical decisions to words
that are semantically ambiguous. All current models of this ambiguity advantage assume …

Most theories of concepts take concepts to be structured bodies of information used in
categorization and inference. This paper argues for a version of atomism, on which concepts …

We present a new distributed connectionist model of the perception of spoken words. The
model employs a representation of speech that combines lexical information with abstract …

Provides an overview of state-of-the-art research on the science of reading, revised and
updated throughout The Science of Reading presents the most recent advances in the study …

Existing accounts of single-word semantic priming phenomena incorporate multiple
mechanisms, such as spreading activation, expectancy-based processes, and postlexical …

It is commonly assumed that innate linguistic constraints are necessary to learn a natural
language, based on the apparent lack of explicit negative evidence provided to children and …