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} }
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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