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Peer reviewedRayner, Keith – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1986
Presents four experiments comparing the perceptual span in second-, fourth-, and sixth-grade readers and skilled adult readers. Suggests that the size of perceptual span is variable and influenced by text difficulty. Concludes that the size of perceptual span does not cause slow reading rates in beginning readers. (Author/DR)
Descriptors: Adults, Beginning Reading, Elementary Education, Elementary School Students
Peer reviewedPosnansky, Carla J.; Rayner, Keith – Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, 1977
Reports on a series of four experiments designed to determine more precisely the characteristics of the stage of visual feature analysis of word identification and to examine response competition factors in this interference task. (SB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Cognitive Processes, Elementary School Students, Reaction Time
