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Gough's One Second of Reading

The document describes the process by which the visual system recognizes letters and words from printed text and derives meaning. It involves pattern recognition to identify icons as letters, decoding letters into sounds, matching sounds to words in the lexicon, using syntactic and semantic rules to determine sentence meaning, storing understood sentences in memory, and converting words into a script for vocalization. The overall process moves from basic visual recognition to full semantic understanding of written language.

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Gough's One Second of Reading

The document describes the process by which the visual system recognizes letters and words from printed text and derives meaning. It involves pattern recognition to identify icons as letters, decoding letters into sounds, matching sounds to words in the lexicon, using syntactic and semantic rules to determine sentence meaning, storing understood sentences in memory, and converting words into a script for vocalization. The overall process moves from basic visual recognition to full semantic understanding of written language.

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“Suppose the eye…”

Visual The print input enter the Visual System and is


System registered as an ICON

Icon “unidentified”, consisting of bars, slits, edges,


curves, angles, and breaks.

Pattern Recognition Routines


Scanner (identifies the icon as a series of letters
and are read to the character register)

Character Register

Code Book - converts the letter


Decoder strings into their phonemic
representations for sound
equivalents

Phonetic Type

Matches the sounds against the lexicon (somewhat


Librarian like a dictionary) and converts them into words.

Since there are only a few words, the meaning is not yet
clear. So, they are placed in the primary memory (PM)
Primary Memory
where the words wait for incoming words from the
subsequent fixations).
Syntactic & Semantic Rules –
Merlin determines the deep structure
(meaning) of the phrase or sentence

“The Place Where Sentences Go When They Are Understood” –


TPWSGWTAU the place where the deep structure is forwarded and becomes a
part of the knowledge in the reader’s memory.

Phonological Rules (pm +


Editor
merlin)

Words coming from the Editor are converted


Script
into a script for vocalization

Vocal
System

“Suppose”

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