| Title |
Letter detection: A window to unitization and other cognitive processes in reading text
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|---|---|
| Published in |
Psychonomic Bulletin & Review, September 1994
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| DOI | 10.3758/bf03213975 |
| Pubmed ID | |
| Authors |
Alice F. Healy |
| Abstract |
Experiments are reviewed that use the letter-detection task, in which subjects read text and circle target letters. Evidence is provided that the letter-detection task reveals the processing units used in reading text and is influenced as well by visual, phonetic, and a combination of semantic and syntactic factors. Specifically, it is shown that circling a target letter in a word depends on the familiarity of the word's visual configuration, the location of the word in the reader's visual field, the phonetic representation of the letter in the word, and a combination of the word's meaning and its grammatical function. |
Mendeley readers
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| United Kingdom | 2 | 3% |
| United States | 1 | 2% |
| Canada | 1 | 2% |
| Unknown | 54 | 93% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Master | 17 | 29% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 12 | 21% |
| Student > Bachelor | 9 | 16% |
| Professor | 4 | 7% |
| Student > Doctoral Student | 3 | 5% |
| Other | 11 | 19% |
| Unknown | 2 | 3% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 40 | 69% |
| Linguistics | 6 | 10% |
| Neuroscience | 2 | 3% |
| Computer Science | 2 | 3% |
| Social Sciences | 2 | 3% |
| Other | 2 | 3% |
| Unknown | 4 | 7% |