Dyanamic processes in visual word recognition

阅读是一项新技能，大约在1万年前才学会。作为第一步，流利的阅读要求我们能够识别单个单词，这个问题一直是相当多的研究主题，特别是在过去的45年里。一个广为流传的假设是，负责识别单词的系统由稳定的处理体系结构组成。在我看来，考虑到当前的文献，以及我实验室的工作，强烈地表明这一基本假设是错误的。相反，系统是动态的，根据上下文重新配置自己。赠款的第一方提出了几条调查路线，将这一结论作为更坚实的经验基础。赠款的第二部分解决了广泛传播的观点，即单词识别在不同的方式上是“自动的”(既不需要意图也不需要注意来识别一个单词)。我的假设是，这种观点太过强烈，在各种语境中，意图和注意力都可以强烈地影响视觉单词识别。提出了几种不同的调查路线来调查这一说法。

Reading is a recent skill, acquired only about 10,000 years ago. Fluent reading requires, as a first step, that we be able to identify individual words, and this issue has been the topic of considerable research, particularly over the last 45 years. A wide spread assumption is that the system responsible for identifying words consists of a stable processing architecture. In my view a consideration of the current literature, along with work from my lab strongly suggests that this fundamental assumption is false. Instead, the system is dynamic, reconfiguring itself in response to the context. The first party of the grant suggests a number of lines of investigation to put this conclusion on as firmer empirical footing.The second part of the grant addresses the wide spread view that word identifcation is "automatic" in various ways (needing neither intention nor attention to identify a word). My hypothesis is that this view is too strong, and that both intention and attention can be shown to strongly influence visual word recognition in a variety of contexts. Several different lines of investigation are proposed to investigate this claim.