Reading: The Confluence of Vision and Language

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  • Jason D. Yeatman
    Graduate School of Education, Stanford University, Stanford, California 93405, USA;
  • Alex L. White
    Graduate School of Education, Stanford University, Stanford, California 93405, USA;

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<jats:p>The scientific study of reading has a rich history that spans disciplines from vision science to linguistics, psychology, cognitive neuroscience, neurology, and education. The study of reading can elucidate important general mechanisms in spatial vision, attentional control, object recognition, and perceptual learning, as well as the principles of plasticity and cortical topography. However, literacy also prompts the development of specific neural circuits to process a unique and artificial stimulus. In this review, we describe the sequence of operations that transforms visual features into language, how the key neural circuits are sculpted by experience during development, and what goes awry in children for whom learning to read is a struggle.</jats:p>

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