An individual’s knowledge is collective in at least two senses: it often comes from other people’s testimony, and its deployment in reasoning and action requires accuracy underwritten by other people’s knowledge. What must one know to participate in a collective knowledge system? Here, we marshal evidence that individuals retain detailed causal information for a few […]

In response to our recent claim that ‘Readers are parallel processors’ [1], our peers have voiced several ideas that will undoubtedly help illuminate the road to scientific consensus about the reading brain. Schotter and Payne [2] echo our plea for bridging traditionally isolated literatures [3]. In terms of theory, our model OB1-reader is one attempt […]

In their compelling opinion piece, Snell and Grainger [1] breathe new life into the debate about parallel versus serial processing of text during reading. They marshal several pieces of evidence against the established view that words are recognized one at a time. We agree that this debate ‘cannot be resolved without treading beyond the methodological […]