title: Are there universals of reading? We don't believe so.
abstract: There are universals of language; but is it also true, as the target article claims, that there are universals of reading? We believe there are no such universals, and invite others to refute our claim by providing a list of some universals of reading. If there are no universals of reading, there cannot be a universal model of reading.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Cognition and its Disorders, Macquarie University, Sydney, NSW 2109, Australia. max.coltheart@mq.edu.au
authors.forename: Max
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Coltheart
authors.forename: Stephen
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Crain
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008959:Models, Neurological; D011932:Reading; D021641:Recognition, Psychology / Q000502:physiology*; D012660:Semantics