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Background

Reading and comprehension are topics of scientific research and professional fields of great interest for society. In the field of scientific research, reading and comprehension has been a preferential issue in the field of psychology. In reading converge from the most basic processes of perceptual and attentional, just like the most complex processes involved in memory, comprehension, reasoning, or the most complex learning. Moreover, reading and comprehension are human mind paradigmatic activities where neuro-cognitive, behavioural and social aspects of great complexity confluence. The alterations (e.g. Dyslexia) and its acquisition and learning processes have served to deepen the understanding of the mind and brain. Moreover, the scientific study of reading in different languages, alphabetic and non-alphabetic, has greatly increased our knowledge of language and its peculiarities in different languages.