Reading as a Perceptual Process

by Alan Kennedy (Editor), D. Heller (Editor), J. Pynte (Editor)

This book is divided into five sections dealing with various fundamental issues in current research: attention, information processing and eye movement control; the role of phonology in reading; syntax and discourse processing and computational models and simulations. Control and measurement of eye movements form a prominent theme in the book. A full understanding of the where and when of eye movement control is a prerequisite of any complete theory of reading, since it is precisely at this point that perceptual and cognitive processes interact. Amongst the 'hot topics' included are the relation between parafoveal and foveal visual processing of linguistic information, the role of phonology in fluent reading and the emergence of statistical 'tuning' approaches to sentence parsing.
Also discussed in the book are three attempts to develop quantitative models of reading which represent a significant departure in theory-building and a quantum step in the maturation of reading research.
Much of the work reported in the book was first presented at the 5th European Workshop on Language Comprehension organised in April 1998 which was held at the CNRS Luminy Campus, near Marseilles. All contributions summarise the state-of-the-art in the relevant areas of reading research.

778 pages, Kindle Edition

First published January 1, 2000

About the author

Alan Kennedy lives near Marciac in the South West of France, home to a huge annual jazz festival. His first three novels appeal to readers from the age of seven to seventy. They examine the lives of a group of children "trapped in amber" over a period of a few golden months. His novel "Lucy" is a love story set in World War II France. The sequel, "A Time to Tell Lies", also set during World War II, is a fictional treatment charting the human cost of two of the most significant WW2 disinformation projects.

Alan Kennedy has also written the biography of the psychologist Oscar Oeser, entitled "Oscar & Lucy." Oeser worked in Germany with Hilter's favourite psychologist, studied at Cambridge alongside some notorious spies, headed Hut 6 at Bletchley Park, and organised a raid on Hiltler's Berghof. Apart from that, his life was tranquil.

Further information about Alan Kennedy's books is available on the Lasserrade Press website: www.lasserradepress.com