Hello,

I am a research assistant at Harvard University. I am conducting some online experiments into the cognitive mechanisms of reading. When we learn to read, what, exactly, do we learn?

The experiment usually takes 3-4 minutes. You make judgments about pairs of letters. Afterwards, you can learn about the purpose of the experiment. You can find it here:

vacognition.wjh.harvard.edu/letters2

Thank you.
Joshua Hartshorne
Visual Cognition Lab
Harvard University Psychology Department

The website says the experiment is no longer in progress.

You have to do Letter Sense II, the follow-up study.

That was my mistake for leaving off the "2" in the url. I've fixed my original post now, but again:

vacognition.wjh.harvard.edu/letters2

notice the "2"!

Sorry about that, and thanks again.

I participated. Quite interesting.

Sorry folks, I moved my post on the evolution of reading to a separate thread. I decided it's better to leave this one strictly as an invitation to the study. Your replies were all short. We can restart the discussion there.

Thanks!