Piers L. Cornelissen, BM BCh D.Phil., is a Reader in Psychology at the Department of Psychology at the University of York.

Peter C. Hansen, D.Phil., is the Director of Neuroinformatics at the Birmingham University Imaging Centre (BUIC) and Senior Research Fellow in the School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, UK.

Morten L. Kringelbach, D.Phil., is the Director of Hedonia: Trygfonden Research Group and holds a dual appointment at the University of Oxford, UK, and Aarhus University, Denmark, where he is a Senior Research Fellow and a Professor of Neuroscience, respectively.

Ken Pugh is President and Director of Research and Senior Scientist at Haskins Laboratories, as well as Associate Professor in the Dept. of Pediatrics at Yale University School of Medicine.

Nicola Brunswick
Psychology Academic Group, School of Health and Social Sciences, Middlesex University, Queensway, Enfield, London, UK

Laurent Cohen
Institut de Neurologie, Hôpital de la Salpêtrière, AP-HP, Paris, France

Piers Cornelissen
Department of Psychology, University of York, UK

Stan Dehaene
INSERM U562, Service Hospitalier Frédéric Joliot, CEA/DSV, Orsay, France

Gina Della Porta
Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT, USA

Julie Fiez
University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Stephen J. Frost
Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT, USA

Jonathan Grainger
CNRS & University of Provence, France

Peter C. Hansen
School of Psychology, University of Birmingham, UK

Argye Hillis
Department of Cognitive Science, Johns Hopkins University, Baltimore, MD, USA

Phillip Holcomb
Tufts University, MA, USA

Morten L. Kringelbach
Department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, Oxford University, UK

Nicole Landi
Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT, USA

Ying Liu
University of Pittsburgh, USA

W. Einar Mencl
Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT, USA

Dina Moore
Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT, USA

Kimihiro Nakamura
Department of Speech Physiology, Graduate School of Medicine, University of Tokyo, Japan

Kristen Pammer
The Australian National University, Canberra, Australia

Charles Perfetti
University of Pittsburgh, PA, USA

Ken Pugh
Yale University, New Haven, CT USA
Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT, USA

Jay G. Rueckl
Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT, USA
University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT, USA

Rebecca Sandak
Haskins Laboratories, New Haven, CT, USA

John Stein
University Laboratory of Physiology, Oxford University, UK

Li-Hai Tan
Hong Kong University, China

Fabien Vinckier
INSERM U562, Service Hospitalier Frédéric Joliot, CEA/DSV, Orsay, France

Carol Whitney
Department of Linguistics, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

"Only fifty years ago the idea of unravelling the neural code of written language would have aroused ridicule. These sceptics would be amazed at the groundbreaking contributions represented in this superb collection of papers on the neuroscience of reading. No reading researcher can remain unaware of the exiting developments that are taking place in this field." --Uta Frith, FmedSci, FBA, FRS, Emeritus Professor of Cognitive Development UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience

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