Visual Factors in Reading

This collection of essays examines how our visual and language systems interact in relationship to reading. <br /> <ul> <li style=”list-style: none”><br /> </li> <li>Addresses four important questions concerning the role of vision in reading<br /> </li> <li>Presents recent findings from neuroimaging literature along with important recent work concerning how letters and letter strings are processed<br /> </li> <li>Investigates what constraints the visual system and eye movement control set on visual word recognition<br /> </li> <li>Discusses the role of the left and right visual field, together with the right and left hemispheres in visual word recognition<br /> </li> <li>Evaluates what information the brain computes when we read a word questions the contribution of the visual system on reading disability</li> </ul>