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What a Simple Letter-Detection Task Can Tell Us About Cognitive Processes in Reading

dc.contributor.authorKlein, Raymond
dc.contributor.authorSaint-Aubin, Jean
dc.date.accessioned2016-12-08T15:32:06Z
dc.date.available2016-12-08T15:32:06Z
dc.date.issued2016
dc.description.abstractUnderstanding reading is a central issue for psychology, with major societal implications. Over the past five decades, a simple letter-detection task has been used as a window on the psycholinguistic processes involved in reading. When readers are asked to read a text for comprehension while marking with a pencil all instances of a target letter, they miss some of the letters in a systematic way known as the missing-letter effect. In the current article, we review evidence from studies that have emphasized neuroimaging, eye movement, rapid serial visual presentation, and auditory passages. As we review, the missing-letter effect captures a wide variety of cognitive processes, including lexical activation, attention, and extraction of phrase structure. To account for the large set of findings generated by studies of the missing-letter effect, we advanced an attentional-disengagement model that is rooted in how attention is allocated to and disengaged from lexical items during reading, which we have recently shown applies equally to listening.en_US
dc.identifier.citationPublished version: Klein, R. M., & Saint-Aubin, J. (2016). What a simple letter detection task can tell us about cognitive processes in reading. Current Directions in Psychological Science. 25:6, 417-424. doi:10.1177/0963721416661173en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10222/72308
dc.identifier.urihttp://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963721416661173
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherPsychological Scienceen_US
dc.relation.ispartofCurrent Directions in Psychological Scienceen_US
dc.subjectreadingen_US
dc.subjectletter processingen_US
dc.subjectmissing-letter effecten_US
dc.subjectattentionen_US
dc.subjecteye-movementen_US
dc.titleWhat a Simple Letter-Detection Task Can Tell Us About Cognitive Processes in Readingen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
dc.typePreprinten_US

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