title: Giving theories of reading a sporting chance.
abstract: The search for a universal theory of reading is misguided. Instead, theories should articulate general principles of neural computation that interact with language-specific learning environments to explain the full diversity of observed reading-related phenomena across the world's languages.
authors.affiliation: Departments of Psychology and Computer Science, and the Center for the Neural Basis of Cognition, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA 15213-3890, USA. plaut@cmu.edu
authors.forename: David C
authors.initials: DC
authors.lastname: Plaut
mesh_terms: D001921:Brain / Q000502:physiology*; D006801:Humans; D008959:Models, Neurological; D011932:Reading; D021641:Recognition, Psychology / Q000502:physiology*; D012660:Semantics