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 […]

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: […]

Previous studies have shown that task-irrelevant auditory information can provide temporal clues for the detection of visual targets and improve visual perception; such sounds are called informative sounds. The neural mechanism of the integration of informative sound and visual stimulus has been investigated extensively, using behavioral measurement or neuroimaging methods such as functional magnetic resonance […]