What a Simple Letter-Detection Task Can Tell Us About Cognitive Processes in Reading
dc.contributor.author | Klein, Raymond | |
dc.contributor.author | Saint-Aubin, Jean | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2016-12-08T15:32:06Z | |
dc.date.available | 2016-12-08T15:32:06Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
dc.description.abstract | Understanding 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.citation | Published 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:10.1177/0963721416661173 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10222/72308 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/0963721416661173 | |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.publisher | Psychological Science | en_US |
dc.relation.ispartof | Current Directions in Psychological Science | en_US |
dc.subject | reading | en_US |
dc.subject | letter processing | en_US |
dc.subject | missing-letter effect | en_US |
dc.subject | attention | en_US |
dc.subject | eye-movement | en_US |
dc.title | What a Simple Letter-Detection Task Can Tell Us About Cognitive Processes in Reading | en_US |
dc.type | Article | en_US |
dc.type | Preprint | en_US |