Toward an interactive model of reading.
@inproceedings{Rumelhart1994TowardAI, title={Toward an interactive model of reading.}, author={David E. Rumelhart}, year={1994} }
R eading is the process of understanding written language. It begins with a flutter of patterns on the retina and ends (when successful) with a definite idea about the author’s intended message. Thus, reading is at once a “perceptual” and a “cognitive” process. It is a process that bridges and blurs these two traditional distinctions. Moreover, a skilled reader must be able to make use of sensory, syntactic, semantic, and pragmatic information to accomplish his task. These various sources of…
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