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Letter frequency effect
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<h2 id="discussion">Discussion</h2> <p>Majority of studies on letter frequency effect failed to find a significant letter frequency effect.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:6" href="#fn:6"><sup>6</sup></a> These studies, however, used the same-different matching task<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:7" href="#fn:7"><sup>7</sup></a> in which the participants see two letters and are to respond if these letters are same or different.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:8" href="#fn:8"><sup>8</sup></a> Therefore, the absence of letter frequency effect in these studies may be due to the participants using the visual form of a letter instead of a letter itself to match the letters.<a class="footnote-ref" id="fnref:9" href="#fn:9"><sup>9</sup></a> </p> <h2 id="references">References</h2> <ol> <li id="fn:1"><p>Cosky, M. J. (1976). The role of letter recognition in word recognition. Memory & Cognition, 4 , 207-214. <a href="#fnref:1" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:2"><p>Egeth, H., & Blecker, D. (1971). Differential effects of familiarity on judgments of sameness and difference. Perception & Psychophysics, 9 (4), 321-326. <a href="#fnref:2" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:3"><p>Latimer, C. R. (1972). Search time as a function of context letter frequency. Perception, 1 , 57-71. <a href="#fnref:3" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:4"><p>Miozo, Michele & Bastiani, Pierluigi de (2002). The Organization of Letter-Form Representations in Written Spelling: Evidence from Acquired Dysgraphia. Brain and Language 80, 366–392 <a href="#fnref:4" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:5"><p>Appelman, I. B., & Mayzner , M. S. (1981). The letter-frequency effect and the generality of familiarity effects on perception.Perception & Psychophysics, 30, 436 – 446. <a href="#fnref:5" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:6"><p>Boris, New & Grainger, Johnatan (2011). On letter frequency effects. Acta Psychologica 138, 322 –328 <a href="#fnref:6" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:7"><p>Boris, New & Grainger, Johnatan (2011). On letter frequency effects. Acta Psychologica 138, 322 –328 <a href="#fnref:7" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:8"><p>Boris, New & Grainger, Johnatan (2011). On letter frequency effects. Acta Psychologica 138, 322 –328 <a href="#fnref:8" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> <li id="fn:9"><p>Boris, New & Grainger, Johnatan (2011). On letter frequency effects. Acta Psychologica 138, 322 –328 <a href="#fnref:9" class="footnote-back-ref">↩</a></p></li> </ol>