PSYCHOLINGUISTICS THEORY Psycholinguistics or psychology of language is concerned with discovering the psychological processes by which humans acquire and use language. Reading is the process of decoding a set of written symbols that have been assigned linguistic meaning, for the purpose of communicating ideas.
Psycholinguistic Process of Reading 1. Visual Perception The ability to interpret the surrounding environment using light in the visible spectrum reflected by the objects in the environment. Eye movements in reading. 2. Neural Basis Understanding the neural systems and mechanisms underlying phonological processes provides a foundation for the investigation of language in the brain
PSYCHOLINGUISTIC S MODELS OF READING 1. Connectionism 2. DRC The dual-route cascaded model is a computational model of word recognition and reading aloud.