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Peer reviewedLockhead, G. R.; Crist, W. B. – Journal of Educational Psychology, 1980
Small graphic changes made in normal letters of the alphabet changed the similarity relations among those letters. Children and adults classified letters of this distinctive font faster and with fewer errors than they did normal letters. Relations between letters in the stimulus set determined how difficult any particular letter was to classify.…
Descriptors: Contrast, Difficulty Level, Higher Education, Letters (Alphabet)
