Journal article
The Missing-Phoneme Effect in Aural Prose Comprehension
Abstract
When participants search for a target letter while reading for comprehension, they miss more instances if the target letter is embedded in frequent function words than in less frequent content words. This phenomenon, called the missing-letter effect, has been considered a window on the cognitive mechanisms involved in the visual processing of written language. In the present study, one group of participants read two texts for comprehension …
Authors
Saint-Aubin J; Klein RM; Babineau M; Christie J; Gow DW
Journal
Psychological Science, Vol. 27, No. 7, pp. 1019–1026
Publisher
SAGE Publications
Publication Date
July 2016
DOI
10.1177/0956797616645096
ISSN
0956-7976