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ERIC Number: EJ569142
Record Type: CIJE
Publication Date: 1998
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ISSN: ISSN-0022-0965
Age Changes in the Missing-Letter Effect Reflect the Reader's Growing Ability to Extract the Structure from Text.
Greenberg, Seth N.; Koriat, Asher; Vellutino, Frank R.
Journal of Experimental Child Psychology, v69 n3 p175-98 Jun 1998
Examined age differences in the missing-letter effect during letter-detection tasks. Found expected increase in magnitude with age of the effect even when function words and content words were equated for frequency. Word scrambling improved letter detection in function words compared to content words among older subjects, arguing against increased unitization of function words as the cause. (KB)
Descriptors: Age Differences, Children, College Students, Cross Sectional Studies, Decoding (Reading), Early Adolescents, Performance Factors, Text Structure, Visual Perception
Publication Type: Journal Articles; Reports - Research
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Language: English
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Identifiers: Letter Recognition