Guest Editors: Johannes Ziegler, Jonathan Grainger and Marc Brysbaert
Modeling word recognition has tremendously advanced our understanding of the core processes involved in reading. Indeed, over the past 30 years, purely verbal theories of word recognition have increasingly been replaced by explicit computational models. These models produce detailed item-based simulations of various phenomena and benchmark effects, which allow them to be tested and falsified. The sophistication and impact of recent modeling has become obvious during a symposium held at the 15th ESCoP Conference in Marseille. To continue and extend the discussions that took place during the symposium, we decided to put together a special issue on computational modeling of word recognition and reading aloud to be published in the European Journal of Cognitive Psychology. Contributions should provide simulations of critical benchmark effects of word recognition or reading aloud. Especially welcome are contributions that describe novel modeling approaches and/or test competing models.

This Special Issue will be sent free to subscribers to this journal, and be available to purchase separately as books to non-subscribers. Check this website for details.