Putting on my Reading Glasses: A Response to Lenses on Reading (Tracey, D. H. & Morrow, L. M., 2006)
In this chapter from Lenses o n R eading , Tracey and Morrow discuss six of the prominent cognitive processing theories from the 1950s to the 1970s. It is interesting to see how our understanding of cognitive processes in general, and of reading in particular, have become more sophisticated with time, though there is still much we do not know about what occurs in our brain. Each of these models make pretty good conjecture based on the research available to the theorists, and each model helped progress our understanding of the reading process. I particularly like that the authors discuss both the historical significance of these six theories (The Substrata-Factor The ory of Reading, 1953; Information Processing Model, 1968; Gough's Model, 1972; Automatic Information Processing Model, 1974; Interactive Model, 1977; Rauding Theory, 1977) and the parts of the model that are still relevant to researchers and practitioners today. For instance, LaBerge & Samuels' Automa