Before revision:  Reductionist neuroscience studies which focus on decontextualized parts of reading cannot access all the relevant processes .
After revision:  Fifth, the natural operation of the brain is not rule-based, as is supposed in the standard view of linguistics: it is prediction, based on statistical pattern recognition. This all calls into question narrow interpretations of the widely quoted "Simple View of Reading", which argues that explict decoding is the necessary route to comprehension. One of the two neural routes to reading does not involve such explicit decoding processes, and can be activated from the earliest years .