Journal article
The influence of multiple readings on the missing-letter effect revisited
Abstract
In searching for a target letter while reading, participants make more omissions when the target letter is embedded in frequent function words than when it is embedded in less frequent content words. According to the guidance-organization (GO) model, this occurs because high-frequency function words are processed faster than low-frequency content words, leaving less time available for letter processing. We tested this hypothesis in three …
Authors
Saint-Aubin J; Roy-Charland A; Klein RM
Journal
Memory & Cognition, Vol. 35, No. 7, pp. 1578–1587
Publisher
Springer Nature
Publication Date
October 2007
DOI
10.3758/bf03193492
ISSN
0090-502X