In a recent opinion article, Snell and Grainger (S&G) [1] argued that the debate over serial versus parallel processing (SvP) in reading was due for a paradigm shift. S&G cover several SvP issues in language processing broadly, but in doing so have lost scope of the crux of this debate as it pertains to reading: can attention be allocated to simultaneously identify more than one distinct adjacent word (Box 1)? Adequately answering this question requires agreement on the definitions of attention and identify and the most appropriate measurements of those processes. Indeed, even advocates of serial attention allocation in reading agree that aspects of language processing are parallel

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眼动和理解对阅读很重要

在最近的一篇评论文章中，Snell 和 Grainger (S&G) [1] 认为，关于阅读中串行与并行处理 (SvP) 的争论是由于范式转变所致。S&G 广泛地涵盖了语言处理中的几个 SvP 问题，但这样做已经失去了这场辩论的症结所在，因为它与阅读有关：是否可以分配注意力以同时识别多个不同的相邻单词（框 1）？充分回答这个问题需要就注意力和识别的定义以及这些过程的最合适的测量达成一致。事实上，即使是阅读中连续注意力分配的倡导者也同意语言处理的各个方面是并行的