Aims: The aims of the programme are: to train researchers in the field of psychological processes related with reading and comprehension of texts and in the areas of linguistic analysis of speech and reading promotion; to contribute to the development of high-level theoretic and applied knowledge about reading, its acquisition, comprehension and disruptions, and its extension to education and editorial fields; to disseminate and promote the importance of reading and comprehension in academic and professional contexts, and in the society in general: to collaborate with companies and entities in the development of techniques, procedures and methodologies for the analysis, assessment and intervention in the reading and comprehension processes.

Description: 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.