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Chastain, Garvin; And Others – 1981
The hypothesis that word context reduces visual rather than acoustic confusion between possible targets was tested in a series of experiments. All involved tachistoscopic presentation of letter strings followed by a pattern mask. Data from eight college students showed that target letters that are confusable only visually and acoustically…
Descriptors: Auditory Discrimination, Cognitive Processes, College Students, Decoding (Reading)
