• Let us follow this path in terms of a reader reading a single word:
✓ The reader briefly retains an image in their sensory store of the actual word as it
appears on the page.
✓ The form of the word is passed to Short Term Memory (STM), which stores current
information.
✓ In order to identify the word, the reader needs to make a lexical search. However, the
STM only holds temporary information needed for immediate purposes. So, it has to
extract lexical information from Long Term Memory.
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