Oculomotor Control, Brain Potentials, and Timelines of Word Recognition During Natural Reading
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Reading is an outstanding achievement of the human brain. The ability to read has substantially formed our history and culture and plays an essential role in our everyday lives. Skilled readers can hardly prevent processing a written stimulus and, most often, they grasp a word’s meaning within a fraction of a second. The understanding of the underlying mechanisms as well as the time course of this seemingly effortless skill is the goal of psycholinguistic research.
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