Reading is a highly complex skill that is prerequisite to success in many societies in which a
great deal of information is communicated in written form. Since the 1970s, much has been …

Bilinguals occasionally produce language intrusion errors (inadvertent translations of the
intended word), especially when attempting to produce function word targets, and often …

Sequence learning has notably been studied using the Hebb repetition paradigm (Hebb,
1961) and the serial reaction time (SRT) task (Nissen & Bullemer, Cognitive Psychology 19 …

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 …

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 …

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 …

When asked to search for a target letter while reading, the patterns with which people miss
the target letter reveal information about the process of reading itself. Questions remain as to …

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 …

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 …

College students searched for either h or the in prose passages in which every h occurred in
the test word the. In Experiment 1, passage versions differed in that the critical noun phrases …