Tag Archives: reading
How do we navigate a world with deep temporal structure?
Navigating our dynamic but structured environment is an essential part of everyday life. For example, when reading this sentence, we pre-empt the context and purpose based on our internal representation of the world and actively sample it
A vision trap: blind areas create confounding effects in studies of complex processes like reading
Local areas of damage to the brain can create very specific problems in visual perception, which appear to affect one type of function but leave many others intact. Understanding what kind of processes could be affected that
The importance of parents in children’s reading skills
Home literacy environment explains between 12 and 18.5 % of the variance of children’s language skills. Although most authors agree that children whose parents encourage them to read tend to develop better and earlier reading skills, some authors
Selectivity in acquired prosopagnosia
Face recognition is a special skill at which most humans are adept. Whether this also means that it involves special resources in the human brain has been debated for many years. A lot of the evidence in
