Tachistoscopic recognition thresholds for nonsense syllables were inversely related to the Glaze (Hilgard, 1951) association value of the syllables. A covariance design was employed in which the frequency of occurrence per million words (Thorndike & Lorge, 1944) of words whose first 3 letters formed the nonsense syllables served as the covariate.
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