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Peer reviewedMasson, Michael E. J. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 1982
Findings indicate that, when skimming, readers find it difficult to perceptually select from a passage information that is relevant to their goal in skimming. There was a reaction time advantage for verification of gist-relevant information as opposed to details, which tended to increase with reading rate. (Author/PN)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Higher Education, Memory, Reaction Time
Direct linkWoollams, Anna M. – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition, 2005
A current area of controversy within the literature on visual word recognition concerns the extent to which semantic information influences the computation of phonology. Experiment 1 revealed that both the imageability effect and the ambiguity advantage seen in the speeded naming task are confined to words with atypical mappings between spelling…
Descriptors: Semantics, Phonology, Figurative Language, Word Recognition
