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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