Interactive Processes in Reading: Where Do We Stand?

Abstract

Much of the current research in reading processes has been aided by movements in experimental psychology known as information processing psychology, cognitive psychology, and cognitive science. The information processing movement has contributed three important ideas: (1) Logoaen theory of a cognitive response unit that is sensitive to the set of auditory, visual, and semantic features associated with a given word: (2) the idea of a limit on he amount of conscious mental processing in which a person can engage at one time: and (3) the cascade theory, which holds that there are two cr more levels of processing that have several properties, each operating continuously on outputs at the next lower level. Separately, a methodology has developed of trying to understand acquisition of a skill by studying differences between People of greater or lesser expertise. The newly emerging cognitive science movement has contributed ideas derived from the work on speech understanding and the distinction between event-driven and goal-driven (bottom up versus top down) processing. (Author/HTH) *************************t********************************************* Peproductions supplie3 by EDRS mre the best that can be made from the original document. ***********************************************************************