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Processing of Visible Language

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  • © 1979

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Editors:
  1. Paul A. Kolers

    1. Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

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  2. Merald E. Wrolstad

    1. Visible Language Journal, Cleveland, USA

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  3. Herman Bouma

    1. Institute for Perception Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

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Part of the book series: Nato Conference Series (NATOCS, volume 13)

Part of the book sub series: III Human Factors (HF)

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Table of contents (33 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xv
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  2. Eye Movements in Search and Reading

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-5
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    2. The Control of Eye Movements in Reading (Tutorial Paper)

      • Ariane Levy-Schoen, Kevin O’Regan
      Pages 7-36

    3. On the Role and Control of Eye Movements in Reading

      • George W. McConkie
      Pages 37-48

    4. Moment to Moment Control of Eye Saccades as a Function of Textual Parameters in Reading

      • Kevin O’Regan
      Pages 49-60

    5. Eye Movements in Reading: Eye Guidance and Integration

      • Keith Rayner
      Pages 61-75

    6. Understanding the Reading Process through the Use of Transformed Typography: PSG, CSG and Automaticity

      • Dennis F. Fisher
      Pages 77-89

    7. Reading and Searching through Geometrically Transformed Text

      • Lester A. Lefton
      Pages 91-96

    8. Reading Eye Movements, Macro-structure and Comprehension Processes

      • Wayne L. Shebilske, L. Starling Reid
      Pages 97-110

  4. Word Perception and its Role in Reading

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 219-225
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    2. Word Recognition in Reading (Tutorial Paper)

      • Alan Allport
      Pages 227-257

    3. Facilitation in Word Recognition: Experiments Causing Change in the Logogen Model

      • John Morton
      Pages 259-268

    4. Word Knowledge and Letter Recognition as Determinants of Word Recognition

      • Don G. Bouwhuis
      Pages 269-281
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About this book

The organization of the page as a technological device and our acquisition of information from it were subjects of keen interest to psychologists and designers a century ago. Research on the topics proceeded briskly for more than a quarter of a century then, and was brought together in the still useful survey and analysis of them all that E. B. Huey published in 1908 as "The psychology and pedagogy of reading, with a review of the history of reading and writing and of methods, texts, and hygiene in reading. " Research on the psychological aspects of literacy tended to diminish after that peak, but research on design and on the technology of presenting infor­ mation has flourished apace meanwhile. Perhaps somewhat stimulated by the reissue of Huey's book by MIT Press in 1968, psychologists have returned to the study of literacy. The symposium that the present volume reports was an effort to bring together again psychologists interested in literacy and related forms of information acquisition, graphics designers, and engineers actively involved in the development and deployment of the newer technology. During this century, psychologists, graphics designers, and engineers have lost much of the mutual communication that their joint enterprise should encourage. The design of machines has often followed the convenience of packaging, the design of displays has often followed the designer's personal esthetic.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Psychology, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

    Paul A. Kolers

  • Visible Language Journal, Cleveland, USA

    Merald E. Wrolstad

  • Institute for Perception Research, Eindhoven, The Netherlands

    Herman Bouma

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Processing of Visible Language

  • Editors: Paul A. Kolers, Merald E. Wrolstad, Herman Bouma

  • Series Title: Nato Conference Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4684-0994-9

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Plenum Press, New York 1979

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4684-0996-3Published: 14 March 2012

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4684-0994-9Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XV, 537

  • Topics: Cognitive Psychology

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