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Missing letter effect, Wikipedia

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Missing letter effect, Wikipedia
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In cognitive psychology, the missing letter effect refers to the finding that, when people are asked to consciously detect target letters while reading text, they miss more letters in frequent function words (e.g. the letter "h" in "the") than in less frequent, content words.
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  • Psychological Phenomena, 8 claims: 2 well-attested, 1 partially Attested, 2 holds, 3 general references.
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