This final image of the reading brain’s connectedness conveys that at least as many things are happening in zigzagging, feed-forward, and feed-backward interactivity as are occurring linearly.28 Indeed, such an impression would be the closest approximation of the many unknowns that remain about the timing and sequence of all that goes on between and among the rings of Vision, Language, Cognition, Motor, and Affect when we read. We are left at the top of our circus tent humbled by the enormity of what makes up this reading act—which most humans take completely for granted.
