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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
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
