September 02, 2004

The Science of Word Recognition

A very readable (obvious but accurate pun) analysis of research on competing cognitive models of reading by Kevin Larson at Microsoft
Given that all the reading research psychologists I know support some version of the parallel letter recognition model of reading, how is it that all the typographers I know say that we read by matching whole word shapes? It appears to be a grand misunderstanding.

[via Slashdot and Kairosnews] http://kairosnews.org/node/view/3938 Posted by johndan at September 2, 2004 12:43 PM | TrackBack