Word recognition is a research area within cognitive psychology and psycholinguistics that focuses on how individuals perceive and interpret written language. This includes the processes involved in recognizing and understanding individual words, as well as how words are processed within the context of sentences and larger blocks of text. Researchers in this area study factors such as word frequency, word length, and contextual cues that influence how quickly and accurately words are recognized. Word recognition is a key component of reading comprehension and language processing.