Rereading Text: Words and Their Context

Two experiments examined recent claims that rereading benefits are mediated by abstract word-level representations (Cair, Brown, & Charalambous, 1989) and are subject to the reader's focus of attention (Carr & Brown, 1990). The effect of prior reading history was measured when readers reread a normal text and when they reread a scrambled word version of the text. The prior reading history was either with the normal or the scrambled versions. In …