'A Rows is a Rose' Summary of a Van Orden Experiement
The cognitive faculities of reading are constantly analized with the purpose of better understanding what they are, and if they can be isolated. The process of orthographic identification, recognizing words, is what makes up skillful and effeicent reading. How words are most quickly identified is the aim many previous experiements as well as Van Orden's. The general hyphothesis is that phonological indentification is more present in reading then orthological identification. That is to say that words are matched to their lexical entries by sound in a top-down process, rather then by their spelling in a bottom-up process. Also the process of identification is based upon positive rather then negative recognition. When a
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Approximate Word count = 512
Approximate Pages = 2 (250 words per page double spaced)
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