{"pk":29373,"title":"A Computational Analysis of the Constraints on Parallel Word Identification","subtitle":null,"abstract":"The debate about how attention is allocated during readinghas been framed in as: Either attention is allocated in a strictlyserial manner, to support the identification of one word at atime, or it is allocated as a gradient, to support the concurrentprocessing of multiple words. The first part of this article re-views reading models to examine the feasibility of both posi-tions. Although word-identification and sentence-processingmodels assume that words are identified serially to incremen-tally build larger units of representation, discourse-processingmodel allow several propositions to be co-active in workingmemory. The remainder of this article then describes an in-stance-based model of word identification, Über-Reader, andsimulations comparing the identification of single words andword pairs. These simulations indicate that, although wordpairs can be identified, accurate identification is restricted toshort high-frequency words due to the computational de-mands of both memory retrieval and limited visual acuity.","language":"eng","license":{"name":"","short_name":"","text":null,"url":""},"keywords":[{"word":"attention; computational modeling; reading; sen-tence processing; Über-Reader; word identification"}],"section":"Modeling Language","is_remote":true,"remote_url":"https://escholarship.org/uc/item/9zj0h1xq","frozenauthors":[{"first_name":"Erik","middle_name":"D.","last_name":"Reichle","name_suffix":"","institution":"Macquarie University","department":""},{"first_name":"Elizabeth","middle_name":"R.","last_name":"Schotter","name_suffix":"","institution":"University of South Florida","department":""}],"date_submitted":null,"date_accepted":null,"date_published":"2020-01-01T21:00:00+03:00","render_galley":null,"galleys":[{"label":"PDF","type":"pdf","path":"https://journalpub.escholarship.org/cognitivesciencesociety/article/29373/galley/19234/download/"}]}