How prior knowledge affects word identification and comprehension.

Eye position and word identification during reading.

Let us think about the word 'identification'.

Fluent word identification in reading is related to the amount of activity in the Left hemisphere posterior system.

It assists word identification by previewing new words and reading hard words aloud.

However, since rhyme monitoring involves word identification it will also show the same context effects as word monitoring.

As we saw in our discussion of Marslen-Wilson and Tyler (1980), there are good reasons why word identification cannot be a largely top-down process.

In particular, we have shown that the effect of context on word identification is different.

Thus, in spoken word identification, context plays a part before identification has been achieved.

However, when words are identified in reading, context appears to influence word identification only after a word has been identified.