Ram Frost (October 15, 1954) is a professor of psychology at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem with affiliations to Haskins Laboratories in New Haven, US, and The Basque Center for Cognition Brain and Language (BCBL) in San Sebastian, Spain.
His Orthographic Depth Hypothesis [1] has argued, contrary to the then mainstream position, that spelling-to-sound correspondence leads to significant differences in reading strategies.
His research on letter-position coding in Hebrew has led to his recent comprehensive theoretical paper “Towards a Universal Theory of Reading”,[4] arguing that writing systems evolve non-arbitrarily to reflect the language phonological and morphological structure.
Therefore, contrary to common assumptions and intuitions, linguistic factors must be taken into account to understand even peripheral visual processing of print.
In recent years Frost has argued for a novel theoretical perspective tying individual sensitivity to regularities in the environment (statistical learning), to assimilating the structural properties of a novel writing system.