ERIC Number: ED132542
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Publication Date: 1976
Pages: 104
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The Nature of Visual Sensory Perception during the Reading Process.
Baker, George Arthur William
A sample of 194 high-school students participated in an investigation of Geyer's hypothesis that the reading or prose takes place by sequential acquisition during the fixational pause of the eye. A measure of sequential acquisition time was obtained using a movie which displayed six-letter words one letter at a time: students were asked to write the word displayed. A measure of reading time was obtained from selected encyclopedia passages. Results of a comparison between reading time and sequential acquisition time were interpreted as supporting the Geyer hypothesis. (Author/AA)
Descriptors: Decoding (Reading), Doctoral Dissertations, Prose, Reading Processes, Reading Rate, Reading Research, Secondary Education, Theories, Visual Perception
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