@article{LCNL:43, author={Michael W. Harm and Mark S. Seidenberg}, year={2004}, title={Computing the Meanings of Words in Reading: Cooperative Division of Labor Between Visual and Phonological Processes}, journal={Psychological Review}, volume={111}, number={3}, pages={662-720}, comments={A major extension of the "triangle" model to the computation of meaning; addresses controversy about role of direct vs. phonologically-mediated mechanisms in reading.}, abstract={Are words read visually (by means of a direct mapping from orthography to semantics) or phonologically (by mapping from orthography to phonology to semantics)? We addressed this longstanding debate by examining how a large-scale computational model based on connectionist principles would solve the problem and comparing the model's performance to people's. In contrast to previous models, the present model employs an architecture in which meanings are jointly determined by the two components, with the division of labor between them affected by the nature of the mappings between codes. The model is consistent with a variety of behavioral phenomena, including the results of studies of homophones and pseudohomophones thought to support other theories, and illustrates how efficient processing can be achieved using multiple simultaneous constraints.}, language={English}, URL={http://lcnl.wisc.edu/publications/archive/43.pdf}, }