%A Arthur M. Jacobs %A Jonathan Grainger %J Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance %T Models of visual word recognition: Sampling the state of the art %X A chart of models of visual word recognition is presented that facilitates formal comparisons between models of different formats. In the light of the theoretical contributions to this special section, sets of criteria for the evaluation of models are discussed, as well as strategies for model construction. %N 6 %K word recognition, reading, cognitive models, connectionism, descriptive adequacy, generality, simplicity, falsifiability, explanatory adequacy, reductionism, holism, nested modeling, strong inference, functional overlap, PDP, localist, lexical decision task, naming task, perceptual identification task, reaction time, model evaluation, %P 1311-1334 %V 20 %D 1994 %L cogprints634