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.
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