• DOI:10.1037/xhp0000532
Corpus ID: 4571477

The Devil’s in the g-Tails: Deficient Letter-Shape Knowledge and Awareness Despite Massive Visual Experience

@article{Wong2018TheDI,
  title={The Devil’s in the g-Tails: Deficient Letter-Shape Knowledge and Awareness Despite Massive Visual Experience},
  author={Kimberly Wong and Frempongma Wadee and Gali Ellenblum and M. McCloskey},
  journal={Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance},
  year={2018},
  volume={44},
  pages={1324–1335}
}

Kimberly Wong, Frempongma Wadee, +1 author M. McCloskey

Published 2018

Psychology, Medicine

Journal of Experimental Psychology: Human Perception and Performance

Knowledge of letter shapes is central to reading. In experiments focusing primarily on a single letter shape—the “looptail” lowercase print G—we found surprising gaps in skilled readers’ knowledge. In Experiment 1 most participants failed to recall the existence of looptail g when asked if G has two lowercase print forms, and almost none were able to write looptail g accurately. In Experiment 2 participants searched for Gs in text with multiple looptail gs. Asked immediately thereafter to write… CONTINUE READING

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