"The" Experiment
Detection errors on the and and: Evidence for reading units larger
than the word by A. Drewnowski and A. Healy, 1977,
Memory & Cognition, 5(6):636-647.
Investigating the boundaries of reading units: Letter detection
in misspelled words by A. Healy and A. Drewnowski, 1983,
Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance,
9(3):413-426.
- Conditions:
- "t" versus "the"
prose versus scrambled
- Passage information
- 12 "the" and 24 "other" words
- Conditional Percentages:
- (# of errors) / (total # of errors)
- Predictions:
- more errors (higher CP) on t/the versus other words, but fewer in the
prose passage than the scrambled passage.
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