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Direct linkJohnson, Rebecca L.; Perea, Manuel; Rayner, Keith – Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance, 2007
Three eye movement experiments were conducted to examine the role of letter identity and letter position during reading. Before fixating on a target word within each sentence, readers were provided with a parafoveal preview that differed in the amount of useful letter identity and letter position information it provided. In Experiments 1 and 2,…
Descriptors: Human Body, Silent Reading, Eye Movements, Word Recognition
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
