Simultaneous reading with the two hands: reply to Bertelson and Mousty.
Bertelson and Mousty's criticisms of Millar's (1987) analyses rest on a misapprehension of the nature and purpose of the measures that were used. Millar (1987) used two measures to test a prediction from the hypothesis that fast braillists use the two hands to read different portions of text simultaneously. The study was not about scanning. Bertelson and Mousty's criticism and reanalysis of Millar's (1987) data is shown to be based on unsupported assumptions, and a misunderstanding of the first measure. Details about the first measure are given. It is shown that the findings from the two measures agree and are in the opposite direction to that predicted by the hypothesis. There could be a number of reasons for the difference between Bertelson et al. (1985) and Millar's (1987) data. They need further study.
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Department of Experimental Psychology, University of Oxford.
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