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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