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Reading is both a simple and a highly complex phenomenon. Simple, since most of us are able to read without too many problems. Nonetheless complex, in spite of scientific attempts to reduce reading mechanisms to terms of independent modules (or “components”). We will present data reflecting the complexity of a specific component devoted to word-meaning, the mental lexicon, which far from appearing as an encapsulate module, could very well embed the whole cognitive system.
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Andreewsky, E., Cochu, F., Parisse, C., Orsoni-Maillard, D. (1993). Reading as a Complex Phenomenon. In: Stowell, F.A., West, D., Howell, J.G. (eds) Systems Science. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2862-3_38
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