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Peer reviewedDunn-Rankin, Peter – Journal of Reading Behavior, 1977
Presents the results of investigating mature readers' focal points when viewing letters, words, and phrases. Several hypotheses from the experiments imply subconscious preprocessing for the mature reader. (JM)
Descriptors: Cognitive Processes, Eidetic Imagery, Reading Research, Vision
Dunn-Rankin, Peter – 1972
This paper reports initial results in the development of an inventory to measure visual reading difficulties. The instrument, called the Word Preference Inventory (WPI), asks the subject to choose between pairs of stimulus pseudo-words the one most like a given target word. An analysis of responses to the WPI from 922 children in grades K-6 and…
Descriptors: Elementary Education, Reading Diagnosis, Reading Research, Reading Tests
Dunn-Rankin, Peter – Scientific American, 1978
Presents results of an investigation of visual cues which lead to word and letter recognition. (SL)
Descriptors: Educational Research, Reading, Reading Research, Reading Skills
