The impact of learning to read on visual processing

• Main Author: Regine Kolinsky (auth)
• Other Authors: Tania Fernandes (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Frontiers Media SA 2016
• Series: Frontiers Research Topics
• Subjects: Psychology; visual word recognition; developmental dyslexia; face recognition; literacy acquisition; Reading development; visual object recognition; Letter processing; Visual Processing
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

Reading is at the interface between the vision and spoken language domains. An emergent bulk of research indicates that learning to read strongly impacts on non-linguistic visual object processing, both at the behavioral level (e.g., on mirror image processing - enantiomorphy) and at the brain level...