Models of reading may be categorized as postulating that the processing of different types of sentential information occurs in either bottom-up, top-down, or parallel forms. A review of evidence concerning the detection of different types of written target is reported which indicates that the assumption that processing is top-down provides a satisfactory quantitative account of available data.
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