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Peer reviewedHealy, Alice F.; Drewnowski, Adam – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 1983
Using a combination of letter-detection and proofreading techniques, subjects searching for target letters in printed text made more errors on correctly spelled words than misspelled words. This word inferiority effect contrasts with the superior perception of letters in words over nonwords commonly found in tachistoscopic studies. (Author/CM)
Descriptors: Higher Education, Letters (Alphabet), Perception, Reading Research
Mozer, Michael C. – 1983
Four experiments investigated the phenomenon of letter migration, the tendency of readers to assign letters from one word to another appearing in close proximity. The experiments, which involved college undergraduate students, revealed several properties of letter migration, including the following: (1) migrations are more frequent when the words…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Letters (Alphabet), Reading Comprehension
Download full textMcConkie, G. W.; And Others – 1985
Fourteen college students read passages displayed on a cathode-ray tube as their eye movements were monitored in a study that examined (1) whether letters that lie in the center of vision are used earlier in the fixation than letters further to the right, (2) how soon after a stimulus event that event can affect eye movement control, and (3) how…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Eye Fixations, Eye Movements, Higher Education
Peer reviewedUnderwood, N. R.; McConkie, G. W. – Reading Research Quarterly, 1985
Fifteen college students read passages from a cathode-ray tube as their eye movements were monitored in a study that investigated the size of the visual region within which they used visual information to distinguish among letters as they read. (HOD)
Descriptors: College Students, Eye Fixations, Eye Movements, Higher Education
Massaro, Dominic W.; Taylor, Glen A. – 1979
Previous research has demonstrated that readers utilize orthographic structure in their perceptual recognition of letter strings. Two experiments were conducted to assess whether this utilization varied with reading ability. Anagrams of words were made to create strings that orthogonally combined high and low single letter positional frequency and…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Higher Education, Language Processing, Letters (Alphabet)
Massaro, Dominic W.; And Others – 1980
A study assessed the role of orthographic structure in college students' perceptual recognition and judgment of letter strings. Lexical status, word frequency, bigram frequency, log bigram frequency, and regularity of letter sequencing were orthogonally varied across a series of experiments. Six-letter words and their anagrams were used as test…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, English, Higher Education, Letters (Alphabet)
Underwood, N. R.; McConkie, G. W. – 1983
A study investigated the size of the perceptual span within which adults use visual information to distinguish among letters as they read. The eye movements of fifteen college students were monitored as they read passages from a cathode-ray tube. On occasional fixations, letters in specified visual regions were replaced by other letters. The…
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, College Students, Eye Fixations, Eye Movements
