Basic processes in visual word identification

阅读能力是现代生活中必不可少的一项技能。这项技能是后天获得的，即使是大学生，他们的技能也千差万别。这项技能也与注意力和自觉性密切相关。我认为，“自动性”的个别属性需要单独调查。例如，许多过程在有限的意义上是自动的，即它们是无意识的，但它们使用或需要不同类型的注意的程度(例如，空间注意、中心注意、执行注意)是需要个别调查的问题。

The ability to read is a skill that is essential to modern living. This skill is acquired, and even university students vary widely in how skilled they are. This skill is also intimately related to attention and automaticity. I hold the view that individual properties of “automaticity” need to be investigated separately. For example, many processes are automatic in the restricted sense that they are unconscious, but the extent to which they use or require different kinds of attention (e.g., spatial attention; central attention; executive attention), are issues that need individual investigation.