Healy A F
J Exp Psychol Hum Percept Perform. 1976 May;2(2):235-42. doi: 10.1037//0096-1523.2.2.235.
In four experiments, subjects read 100-word passages and circled instances of the letter t. Subjects missed a disproportionate number of ts in the word the. Evidence was provided against explanations of this effect involving the location and pronunciation of the t in the and against an explanation in terms of the redundancy of the. Rather the high frequency of the appeared to be critical, and it was suggested that high-frequency words are read in terms of units larger than the letter.
在四项实验中,受试者阅读100字的短文,并圈出字母t的实例。受试者遗漏了单词the中不成比例数量的t。有证据反对关于这种效应的解释,这些解释涉及the中t的位置和发音,也反对从the的冗余性角度进行的解释。相反,the的高频出现似乎至关重要,有人提出高频单词是按照比字母更大的单位来阅读的。