Toward estimating sources of overlooking error in letter-search tasks

这项研究是关于人类受试者从由汉字和平假名组成的正常日语文件中取消所有平假名字母[no]的表现。虽然这项任务看起来很容易完成，但只有不到五分之一的人能够取消，例如，取消一页文件中的所有30个[no]。目前研究的主要结果是，汉字后面的字母[no]比平假名后面的字母更容易被忽视。通过调查发生这种情况的原因，我们可以进一步了解人类感知的基础。

This study is about the performance of human subjects cancelling all of the hiragana-letters [no] from normal Japanese document that consists of kanji's and hiragana's. Although the task seems easy to accomplish, it is less than one out of five persons who could cancel, for example, all the thirty [no]s in one-page document. The main result of the current study is that the letter [no]s after kanji are more often overlooked than the ones after hiragana. By investigating the reason why that happens, we could go one-step further into the understanding of human's basis of perceptions.