An Experimental Study in the Psychology of Reading

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University of Chicago Press, 1917 - 126 頁
 

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第 51 頁 - THE stranger who would form a correct opinion of the English character must not confine his observations to the metropolis. He must go forth into the country; he must sojourn in villages and hamlets; he must visit castles, villas, farm-houses, cottages; he must wander through parks and gardens; along hedges and green lanes; he must loiter about country churches; attend wakes...
第 13 頁 - It does not fall predominantly in the first part of words, nor does it occur more frequently in the first part of the sentence than in the last, and apparently pays little attention to many of the laws of apperception or the rules of the rhetorician." The exact points of fixation are "significant only as representing the point about which are grouped the 'block' of letters that are simultaneously perceived as one word or phrase complex. It more often falls in the first third than at the centre of...
第 24 頁 - They are fastened in front, one slightly to the right and the other slightly to the left of the subject's point of regard.
第 16 頁 - The latter determinations were made on eight subjects and showed that "on an average consciousness can at one time grasp four numbers, three to four letters, two words, or a sentence composed of four words. The letters are slightly more difficult to grasp than the numbers, every combination of numbers making a number that gives 'sense.
第 50 頁 - The rabbit will deposit its dung in the same corner; the bird makes its nest on the same bough. But each of these preferences carries with it an insensibility to other opportunities and occasions — an insensibility which can only be described physiologically as an inhibition of new impulses by the habit of old ones already formed.
第 80 頁 - And when all is said and done, it must be admitted that Louis's taste in women was refined though catholic.
第 13 頁 - The attention is ahead and pulling the eye along." It was found that the "exact point that is fixated may be in any part of the words, or in the spacing between them." "It does not fall predominantly in the first part of words, nor does it occur more frequently in the first part of the sentence than in the last, and apparently pays little attention to many of the laws of apperception or the rules of the rhetorician.
第 47 頁 - Elementary group coming words and phrases, as well as a consciousness of the relation of the immediately fixated symbols to the larger groups of phrase and sentence. Without this premonition of coming words and the outlines of larger groups the process of reading would be slow and difficult.

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