What a simple letter-detection task can tell us about cognitive processes in reading

RM Klein, J Saint-Aubin - Current Directions in …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Understanding reading is a central issue for psychology, with major societal implications.
Over the past five decades, a simple letter-detection task has been used as a window on the …

Mind wandering in text comprehension under dual-task conditions

P Dixon, H Li - Frontiers in Psychology, 2013 - frontiersin.org
In two experiments, subjects responded to on-task probes while reading under dual-task
conditions. The secondary task was to monitor the text for occurrences of the letter e. In …

Assessing the influence of letter position in reading normal and transposed texts using a letter detection task.

K Guérard, J Saint-Aubin, M Poirier… - Canadian Journal of …, 2012 - psycnet.apa.org
Au cours de la reconnaissance d'un mot, certaines lettres apparaissent jouer un rôle plus
important que les autres. Même si quelques études ont suggéré que la première et la …

Estimating the probability and fidelity of memory

MA Lawrence - Behavior Research Methods, 2010 - Springer
Research on memory may benefit from paradigms that permit graded characterization of
memory performance, but a simple variance-based approach to the analysis of such graded …

Aural and written language elicit the same processes: Further evidence from the missing-phoneme effect.

É Laplante, V Geraghty, E Hendel… - Journal of …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
When readers are asked to detect a target letter while reading for comprehension, they miss
it more frequently when it is embedded in a frequent function word than in a less frequent …

The role of eye movements in the missing-letter effect revisited with the rapid serial visual presentation procedure.

J Saint-Aubin, S Kenny… - Canadian Journal of …, 2010 - psycnet.apa.org
Lorsque les participants lisent un texte en cherchant une lettre cible, ils sont plus
susceptibles de rater la lettre cible lorsqu'elle fait partie de mots fonctionnels que de mots …

Individual differences in working memory capacity and visual search while reading

RS Redden, K Eady, RM Klein, J Saint-Aubin - Memory & Cognition, 2023 - Springer
Individual differences in working memory capacity are related to variations in a wide range
of cognitive tasks. Surprisingly, effects of individual differences in working memory capacity …

The Development of the Missing-Letter Effect Revisited

A Roy-Charland, MM Collin… - Experimental …, 2023 - econtent.hogrefe.com
When participants read a text for comprehension while identifying a target letter, the letter is
more often missed in a frequent function word than in a less frequent content word. This is …

Eye movements when reading: The importance of the word to the left of fixation

A Roy-Charland, J Saint-Aubin, RM Klein… - Visual …, 2012 - Taylor & Francis
In reading, it is well established that word processing can begin in the parafovea while the
eyes are fixating the previous word. However, much less is known about the processing of …

Effects of grammatical categories on letter detection in continuous text

D Foucambert, M Zuniga - Journal of psycholinguistic research, 2012 - Springer
The present study focuses on the interplay between the linguistic principles and the
psycholinguistic processes involved in reading. Results from 56 participants on a letter …