Citation

Healy AF. J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform. 1976; 2(2): 235-242.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1976, American Psychological Association)

DOI

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PMID

1271029

Abstract

In four experiments, subjects read 100-word passages and circled instances of the letter t. Subjects missed a disproportionate number of ts in the word the. Evidence was provided against explanations of this effect involving the location and pronunciation of the t in the and against an explanation in terms of the redundancy of the. Rather the high frequency of the appeared to be critical, and it was suggested that high-frequency words are read in terms of units larger than the letter.

Language: en