Research
What Rapid Naming Tells Us About the Reading Brain
Elizabeth Norton & Maryanne Wolf
Research
Elizabeth Norton & Maryanne Wolf

Norton and Wolf’s Annual Review of Psychology paper is the citation of record on rapid automatized naming, and on why naming a row of colors fast predicts reading in every written language studied.
RAN is a microcosm of the processes involved in reading.
— Norton & Wolf, 2012
Read the free PDF hosted by Northwestern, or the record at Annual Reviews.
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