Citation

Sanocki T. J. Exp. Psychol. Hum. Percept. Perform. 1988; 14(3): 472-480.

Affiliation

Department of Psychology, University of South Florida, Tampa 33620.

Copyright

(Copyright © 1988, American Psychological Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

2971774

Abstract

Strings of four unrelated letters were presented for subjects to identify, followed by a patterned mask and then a forced choice test of each letter position. In Experiment 1, the type style in the regular conditions was consistent--all of the letters were of a single type font--whereas in the mixed condition, each string contained letters from two type fonts. Compared with the mixed condition, accuracy in the regular conditions was higher overall and increased at a faster rate as a function of processing time. This held across four sessions. In Experiment 2, the font in the mixed condition was varied either between or within letter strings; sizeable advantages for the regular conditions were found with both mix-methods. The results are consistent with the idea of a schemalike perceptual system that becomes tuned to the regularities of a particular font in order to process visual information efficiently.

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