“Suppose the eye…”

Visual The print input enter the Visual System and is

System registered as an ICON

Icon “unidentified”, consisting of bars, slits, edges,

curves, angles, and breaks.

Pattern Recognition Routines

Scanner (identifies the icon as a series of letters
and are read to the character register)

Character Register

Code Book - converts the letter

Decoder strings into their phonemic
representations for sound
equivalents

Phonetic Type

Matches the sounds against the lexicon (somewhat

Librarian like a dictionary) and converts them into words.

Since there are only a few words, the meaning is not yet
clear. So, they are placed in the primary memory (PM)
Primary Memory
where the words wait for incoming words from the
subsequent fixations).
 Syntactic & Semantic Rules –
Merlin determines the deep structure
(meaning) of the phrase or sentence

“The Place Where Sentences Go When They Are Understood” –

TPWSGWTAU the place where the deep structure is forwarded and becomes a
part of the knowledge in the reader’s memory.

Phonological Rules (pm +

Editor
merlin)

Words coming from the Editor are converted

Script
into a script for vocalization

Vocal
System

“Suppose”